12-14-2025, 05:24 PM
(12-14-2025, 05:20 PM)rickymouse Wrote: If the kids finish their healthy supper, they get desert. That is their allowance here. The youngest one, the boy, is going through oppositional defiance right now, hopefully we can get him straightened out in a year. I don't like potatoes...yet he loves french fries and tater tots. Do I have to eat all my potatoes...about two mouthfuls...yes, each quarter spoonful he asks is that enough, I am full...so we tell him, you don't get desert if you are full...repeat...repeat...repeat for every tiny bit of potatoes on the spoon he eats. Same with chicken or beef, he wants that desert and resists eating anything. thirty minutes to eat and complain, three minutes to eat his desert though.
Well certainly a potato aversion must be corrected. There's no excuse for that.
But I imagine it depends where you live and what social class you're in. Like having a cell phone. An iPhone and some regular Apple Cash are practically a necessity for kids now.
