I’m glad you shared! Life is hard, parenting is doubly hard, and we’re all just trying to make it through and do at least a little better than our parents did.

I’m just glad my kids didn’t inherit my messy room… I had literal layers of stuff on the floor, like it was some sort of strata. I can’t believe my parents let me get away with it. That said, I knew where everything was.

Anyway, good job to you as well!

Hey man, I honestly appreciate your insight and ideas. You’re spot on for what to do for how to cook and prepare veggies for kids (and adults too). My parents raised me on the most bland American cuisine imagination (they rarely even added salt), but when I left home, I discovered the greater world of veggie preparation.

But, with all due respect, you haven’t met my kids. My partner and I are not perfect parents, but we’ve tried many different ways to prepare and serve veggies, including salted, roasted, sautéd with oil and seasoning, boiled, raw with/without dip/sauce… It doesn’t help that my partner is nearly as picky as my kids (to be fair, I can be quite picky with respect to texture). But, at least we’re making sure they understand that a balanced diet is vital to health. And, hey, both of my kids are healthy and in the lower percentile for height-weight ratio, so we haven’t failed them yet.

Regarding my original downvoted comment, it was just an old Gen x dude trying to make a dumb old joke.

Come on, man. I have my kids eating their veggies, but they don’t like it. The older one knows they are healthy and eats them reluctantly, the younger never chooses veggies unless we attach consequences for not eating (e.g., no dessert unless you eat your veggies).

But neither wants to eat them.

What kid wants to eat salad?

I’d recommend someone check it out :)

OK, I’ll be your someone!

Edit: it was definitely worth it! 5/7 perfect score

I’d go to the warehouse store and load up on non-pershable food items my family uses for no more than $1000, then donate the rest to Wikipedia so I never have to see Jimmy Wales’ face again when I’m looking up tin pest, Rob McElhenny, or Regulate (my most recent three Wikipedia pages in my history).

I love the sentiment! Food banks/pantries are such a good way to directly help people in need.

But… I had heard that it’s usually better to give cash to food banks/pantries rather than food, that way they can buy what they need generally* at better prices than we can get. But I’m not directly involved in food banks/pantries, so please correct me if I’m wrong.

Of course, if you can get mega deals on real food* with coupons or whatever, then of course that’s better.

**I’d also heard that food pantries get so much cranberry sauce donated during November, but cranberry sauce is nutritionally deficient, and that if you donate food, make sure it’s real food.

I second the Kobo. Bought one when my old kindle died, no regrets.

Are you suggesting that trump is clever and/or witty enough to come up with that on the spot? I find it hard to believe trump would be that clever. And if he was, he would have immediately followed it up with some comment about the “radical democrat [sic] deep state” out to get him.

Teachers like this exist. One of my kids had an elementary school teacher like this. Two examples:

1. The math assignment was about currency denominations; what coins and bills you need to make up $7.42, for example. My kid answered using $2 bills (uncommon in the US but still printed), as we have them at home. Teacher marked the answer wrong because teacher didn’t mention $2 bills in class.
2. The writing assignment was to rewrite the Snow White story from the perspective of another character. My kid, having read a bunch of those “twisted tales” and recently fallen in love with “Wicked”, wrote from the evil queen’s perspective and made her a sympathetic character. Teacher marked her down for “changing the story” without acknowledging my kid’s creativity. Teacher did not back down when we confronted her on this during our parent teacher conference.

(FWIW, in both cases we reassured our kid that they did great in both cases, and that we were proud of them.)

!lemmysilver

Well played.

“Shoot Donald Trump” is the funniest thing Biden could have done.

HE STEALS ONLY WHAT HE CAN’T AFFORD… THAT’S EVERYTHING!

Some more than others. Some much more than others.

Also, I got punched in the face by a fish while I was down there.

Please elaborate.

Has been and always will be stegosaurus. How can you not love those bone plates and spiked tail? Dude’s a beast.

That said, ankylosaurus comes in at a close second. It’s armor is pretty boss.

Fair enough!

Oh wait, now I realised that’s basically r2d2

Is that a bad thing?

… but it becomes an annoying game of cat ND also cat…

Hello, The Monarch: