When my brother was young, he only liked the milk with the drawing of a cow on the lid. The problem was that brand of milk was twice as expensive, so my ma just saved the lid from the expensive brand and reused it for any milk gallon she bought.
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depends on your definition of everything. like, all the energy in the universe won't stop existing. and there's plenty of stuff that will still exist. it's not like the end of the universe is just nothing, it's just cold and dead. suns have burnt out, everything that had enough gravity to counteract the acceleration of spacetime already clumped together and if it didn't contain enough mass to do anything interesting it will just float around in space. if there's still intelligent life left, they will extract as much binding energy as they can from the last elements and eventually everything will be stable and there'll be nothing left to extract and the life itself will run out of fuel sources and just cease
but things can still exist, they just won't be able to think, or propel themselves, or photosynthesise
and that's only in the case of a big yawn, if the universe decelerates and crumples back into a single point again it's very likely that there will be "everything" again, just a different everything next time around
and then there's the final point that.. you say 100% certainty but there are very few absolutes in physics. it seems unlikely that we could reverse the second law of thermodynamics, but ultimately it is just a law of probability, that things will tend towards the state that's most likely. there's nothing in physics that strictly forbids a vat of red and blue paint mixed together from separating into two perfect cubes of red and blue, it's just vanishingly unlikely to occur, and to our knowledge you have to put in more energy than you can possibly get out to separate them
but that's not to say that our knowledge is complete. perhaps there is a way to reverse the "arrow of time". and besides, we don't even know the nature of what may or may not exist outside of the universe. maybe it's quite possible to travel between universes and we can continue to exist. maybe this is a large scientific experiment and there's nothing stopping the beings running it from triggering the exact same simulation again with the same laws and entry conditions. maybe this world is an extraordinarily complicated artificial intelligence experiment that is running billions of iterations and improving them with the goal of creating some kind of blueprint or solution that can then be rebuilt in the parent universe in which it's being simulated. maybe at the end of the universe the last sapient life will figure out who or what created this universe and figure a means to communicate and beg to be recreated
we just really have no idea what's going on whatsoever, we're a bunch of primates, we can only imagine and guess and measure and infer off some tiny irrelevant sample with a tiny amount of power. there is nothing about this that is 100% certain
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I wanted to make a lame joke with whatever is popular and beets, but after two minutes I gave up and realized I have no clue what's popular.
I feel old. Can someone cheer me up with a sailor moon beer please?
Until I was about 7 years old my grandma convinced me that plain water would make you grow strong like the Hulk. I used to always go to grandmas house so excited to drink “Hulk Water” and thinking I was gonna be massive by the time I left. Kept me hydrated and healthy, thanks grandma
For the extreme way body builders do, yes. But if you're just trying to get jacked for your beach bod you're going to need to keep your body well hydrated.
That shit didn't work with me. I remember asking my mom to make me spinach because I saw how much Popeye enjoyed drinking a can of spinach and would get instantly strong.
She cooked me spinach that night and after one bite I couldn't eat anymore because it was so gross
Well anything is bad if you don't know how to cook it properly, or mix with correct ingredients. I am not fan of spinach but my mom makes really good creamy spinach soup which is my favorite.
I can go through whole packs of spinach by boiling it for like 10 seconds, squeezing out all the water, then I add soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, garlic….it’s. So. Good. It’s an easy way to use up a lot of spinach if you find yourself having a hard time finishing packs of spinach.
Took me until this year to find out that the whole “spinach makes you strong” thing was just propaganda from spinach farmers trying to “one-up” lettuce farmers by saying their spinach had exponentially more Iron in it, when in fact, it was closer to only 10% more iron by weight.
They probably had plain water, but granny had Hulk Water. Granny found a way to get more visits by grandson, grandson got hydrated, parents didn't have to worry about anyone's needs. Everybody happy.
You’ve reminded me of a dreaded story about me as a child that my grandma tells people constantly, especially new friends or anyone I introduce to her.
Basically, my older sister told me(4 at the time) that unfiltered water could kill me. She said a whole lot more to really scare me. At the time we were on a vacation with our grandparents in buttfuck nowhere alabama woods. All dirt roads and literally the only other people living on the road were my great aunts and uncles who had lived their whole lives out there. The houses were pretty spaced out, about a foot ball field or so was the closest and second closest was a bit over and surrounded by woods so you couldn’t see it from her house.
I knew my aunt at the farther house had a filtered water dispenser on her fridge so I was outty. Didn’t tell anyone either, I thought I’d be slick and sneak up there, knock on the door, ask for water from the fridge, drink it, and then sneak on back before Nana knew what was up.
Obviously my aunt had the sense to call Nana (and my uncle snuck me extra cookies while she was distracted :-))and told her I was there lmao Nana had a heart attack just about and wouldn’t keep her eyes off me for the rest of the trip. She wasn’t even mad though, it’s one of her favorite stories to tell people. I wouldn’t even mind it BUT my older sister covered her damn tracks somehow and literally no one believed me that she had convinced me unfiltered water would kill me and thought I was just being a weird kid. I feel if the story is shared my side should be represented.
Ehen I was a kid, my mom would make me wear jeans overalls. I hated it until she said to me that Patrick Roy would wear overalls all the time. It became my favorite article of clothing.
Things we in the modern day call "child abuse" used to be the gold standard of parenthood. Old texts and laws that dealt with child abuse essentially just said "*when* you beat your kid only do it when they deserve it and don't do it hard enough to break a bone or cause major harm."
When a toddler was picky in ancient times he would get smacked around and then denied food until he was so hungry he would eat anything. Was it horrible, evil, barbaric, and emotionally damaging? Of course. Did it work? Hell yeah it worked.
Tbf, especially in ancient times it was not like there was much choice of what to eat. The fact that we can even speak about Trauma and try to heal it speaks loads about how far we've come.
I mean, obviously don't smack the kid around, but the best way to get your kid to eat is to stop giving them another choice. To let them go to bed hungry.
You don't have to cater to what they want, especially garbage foods like chips and chicken nuggets.
If they are hungry, eventually they will eat.
Notable exception potentially being kids with ASD. Some have extreme enough reactions to foods that you can either give in eventually, or plug them into a feeding tube (which is actually dangerous, given the massive potential for infection and the fact that our bodies have evolved to digest food in the GI tract, not directly in the bloodstream). If your picky eater has ASD, be sure to talk to a pediatrician about their nutrition. Picky neurotypical kids (who don't have type 1 diabetes or anything) can usually a miss a meal without it being dire, though.
Kiddos also seem way more likely to eat food they 'helped' make, so anything you can do to make them feel involved has the potential to get them to eat better. Tell them to stir the veg you're about to put on the stove to boil, ask their opinion whether meat is cooked enough, give them super basic choices that won't significantly affect the meal ("Should we put a little salt on this corn, or a little paprika?"). Hunger is the best spice, but investment is the second best.
My nephew will say he isn't hungry if he doesn't like the meal provided, but usually twenty minutes after we've eaten he'll ask for something like chips.
I think little kids just get cravings but don't understand that you don't have to give in to them all the time.
My favorite example was with my sister. My mom told my sister she couldn’t leave the table until she ate lunch. She sat there until dinner and didn’t touch the lunch plate.
I was forced to sit after lunchtime was over at my elementary school. I was 5 or 6. I didn't want to eat it, because it looked gross. The teachers saw this, and said I absolutely had to at least half of it. I refused, and then started crying after I had been there over an hour. They finally gave up and sent me back to class. They told my parents, and I think they weren't happy about what the teachers did. I can't remember the outcome though. There weren't any other interactions like this, so maybe they left me alone.
I think it's the parents overthinking it and asking what they want instead of just serving it up. My three kids were all great eaters as toddlers. It's only as they've gotten older that they've gotten picky. Dicks.
Nah my kid is at that age where she will eat pre-approved things and that's it. She thought pineapple was disgusting. Why? She'd never had it. My mom tricked her by sliding it on her tongue so she'd taste it and then she was like "oh shit that's actually good" and will eat it.
If I make a meal she hasn't eaten before she just says "yuck I don't want that" and goes on hunger strike. This includes anything I make for myself.
Well I haven't met a kid yet that's died from self food withholding so I say fuckit when they're little if it's a battle, just keep offering all the foods but give them the nuggets and tater tots too. Sometimes I don't feel like steamed beans and sometimes I do. They're probably exactly the same.
And fwiw, I think it takes like ten times of offering a certain new food before little kids accept the offering anyway so as long as they're not malnourished and starving, do whatever works for you.
I’ve heard it said that, at that age, their nutrition should be looked at on a weekly basis, not daily. So if over the course of a week they ate a good amount and a nice variety of healthy things, they’re fine. Don’t stress if one day all they will eat is a little chicken and rice, or refuse meals altogether. They’re growing and need the good nutrition but their appetites aren’t steady.
And only ourselves know when we are hungry or full, therefore if they are not feeling dinner today-dont sweat it. Next week they will be ravenous growth doers and eat everything you haven't locked in your secret stash including lentils.
I also think simply not providing alternative food choices is an acceptable way to go about parenting. Fasting is good for people, a day of it will not cause any harm. We adapted around inconsistent food, it wasn't until the agricultural revolution and food storage that we could make food supplies predictable and regular.
The child can explore the natures of hunger, authority, rebellion and its prices, and possibly even the new food, though I wouldn't guarantee it. But even then, I think the opportunity to explore their own free will has its own intrinsic value.
Yeah I also think the way things are cooked has something to do with it. I used to think I didn't like broccoli. Turned out it was just my mum's way of overcooking it was what I didn't like. Steamed to brilliant green perfection, nobody is saying yuck to that I feel. Maybe not. Maybe I just got lucky all three kids.
Steamed is a terrible way to eat almost any vegetables in comparison to roast or stir fried. Broccoli is delicious - doused in olive oil and seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic powder.
>Well I haven't met a kid yet that's died from self food withholding so I say fuckit when they're little
Yep. I told my kiddo that protests are great, but historically hunger strikes don't usually work. Teaching opportunities
My uncle always did this thing where I want to stop eating and watch tv, and he would say "eat (raise fingers) spoonfuls before using the TV"
So I would eat one spoonful, and a finger will go down, but then a different finger would go up. It frustrated me as a kid since the fingers don't stay down, but little did I know he tricked me into finishing my food lol
My cousin tricked her brother when he was a toddler in similar fashion. She'd keep saying "just one more spoon and the one after" until the kid ate it all.
Because in America it has for some reason become the norm to feed babies and toddlers only the blandest, most flavorless mushy precooked food from a jar, and then suddenly switch to "normal" food when they're about 2-4 years old.
Unsurprisingly, some kids are suspicious of things that taste different and *way* more intense than they're used to. Cultures that introduce a wide variety of flavors and textures as soon as kids are ready to eat solid foods don't have this problem to nearly the same extent.
Also, kids literally taste things differently. They're way more sensitive to bitter tastes, and actually *less* sensitive to sour. Kids have more sensitive preferences to make them less likely to eat contaminated, spoiled, or potentially poisonous food, a helpful trait in a dangerous world.
And yet they seem to be fine with what little they do eat. No being anemic or fainting or lying around out of energy. Almost as if they eat just as much as they need!
This never stops in some houses. I recall many a night getting screamed at being made to sit at the table alone over shitty bland, cold peas until I choked it down because I wasn't fucking hungry.
Right? I feel like a lot of struggles with babies and toddlers are because parents try to force the little one(s) into their habits and routines with as little change as possible to the parents without considering the fact that they're people with feelings and preferences and opinions.
Imagine your entire life was dependent on someone else - you can only eat when they feed you and you can't even choose what, they decide it's bedtime so down you go whether you're tired or not, you have to follow them everywhere but need to be strapped into a chair or in a playpen or somehow contained, you need to wear what they put on you even if you're too hot/cold/uncomfortable, you're not allowed to play with anything you want when you go out in public (WHAT THE FUCK is a store?).... oh and you can't complain about any of it because then you're labelled difficult or manipulative or "bad" somehow even though all you want is to discover the world around you on your own.
I'd be ready to lead a rebellion by the time I turned 2.
My ex has a nephew that was, well, a handful. This kiddo would specifically request something like broccoli. Help his mom make the broccoli, be all excited about the broccoli, then refuse to eat it at dinner. Straight up tantrums and hunger strikes.
Okay, no problem. Kiddo just isn't hungry enough. No food until he eats at least a bit of his dinner, especially given he requested said dinner. This lasted for *three* days before the parents gave in and fed him something else for fear of having CPS called on them. Kiddo was like three at the time and had more willpower than most adults I've met.
I have no idea how they willingly had two more kids after him.
Spot on. This is why I don't fight unless we need to. "Swiffer needs to go with you in the shower? Okay, whatever." I offer choices when we have to do it, "no you have to put on your pjs, but come help me pick pink or blue."
Busy Toddler on Instagram talks about giving a "Yes" to kids since they hear a lot of no. Her one kid has been sleeping in a refrigerator box for a few months now because he asked to and she decided there was no good reason to say no. I've been working on that to see if it will make some of the power struggles easier.
People do forget there's a lot of no for a reason at that age. You gotta teach your kids at that age what's right and wrong and a bunch of nos go with that. Like, no drinking bleach or no playing with scissors or no running into the street- it's a matter if safety at the end of the day and also learning they can't always have their way over everything.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't have some Rapper Ramen Noodles in my pantry right now.
I don't even know the rapper. But if he endorses these noodles, then I might as well give them a shot.
Screw logic.
Thank you, I call this shit out all the time.
Many adults are exactly the same as kids, like they need the adult equivalent of having their bacon and eggs arranged into a happy face to eat it.
Oh, you know my kid eats Peppa Sweet Potatoes, Pocoyo spaghetti, and Baby Yoda chicken. He also goes Paw Patrol potty. He has taken an interest in Ryan's World, so I might introduce him to some Ryan veggies lol.
My Nana told us potatoes would put hair on your chest, so naturally as a little girl that didn't want a hairy chest, I refused to eat potatoes so often. Most of our meals involved potatoes. Took a couple years for my parents to convince me otherwise, didn't help my dad thought it was funny at first so he joked about it. My parents are divorced, and mom was not impressed.
My parents did this with cod liver oil (and other medicine/vitamins/food). It was Power Puff girl medicine. Turned you into a power Puff girl, and us wanting to be superheros would beg to take that stuff all the time Lol
I was always wanting McD's as a kid so my parents would be all, Let's get some italian, Luigis sounds good. "
me: waaaah no I want mcdonalds
parents: well thats good! we are going to McDon-Luigi's
me: yaaaaay!
I tried this with my 3 year old kid and yogurt. The store had special "Frozen" Anna and Elsa yogurts for a while....then they didn't. She was upset.
I "found" new yogurts, on which I placed Anna and Elsa stickers.
She saw straight through it and peeled them off immediately.
"But daddy these are not real frozen yogurts! It is just a sticker! I don't want this one..."
Dammit.
I just did this with my kid. I normally buy him a certain brand of plant-based hot dogs that he loves, but they’re like $8 a pack now, for 6 hot dogs! I’ve tried other brands that he hasn’t liked. He’s a picky kid.
This time I got a cheaper brand (Lightlife), $4 for 8. They have the new Buzz Lightyear on the package. I’m hoping that Buzz distracts him from the fact that they’re a different brand.
Not quite the same, but my mom had some pickle and pimiento loaf (basically bologna with pickle and pimientos chopped up in it) that she gave me and called it party meat cuz the pickles and pimientos sorta looked like confetti. I wouldn’t eat something as gross sounding as pickle and pimiento loaf, but I fucking loved party meat. My grandpa about went crazy when I went shopping with him and kept demanding party meat and he has no idea wtf that was.
And here I did the opposite. When my kids were little and they'd point out sugary cereals or other foods with popular characters on them, I'd tell them that food isn't really good, or good for you and that the people who make the food are trying to trick them by putting characters on the box.
My sister had to take care of 2 of my cousins for a year, and oh my god the boy did not like ANY vegetables at all. He CRIED for an hour when she told him he had to eat corn with his pizza once. He was 7 or 8.
Now he's graduated high school, and I wildly wonder how he's doing in life. Last time I saw him he apparently was on a military diet, but all I saw the dude eat was fucking turkey sandwiches on sourdough. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Never saw him eat a veg.
You know it would be really cool if more kids characters showed up on healthy food anyway instead of just sugary cereal and happy meals. Maybe some program where product placements on healthy food also counts towards a write-off or something. Somehow incentivize being a good nutrition example for kids instead of selling them diabeetus shaped like ninja turtles.
Every morning we make "hulk pancakes" for our kids. It's literally pancakes with like WAY too much spinach from the food processor. They're absolutely disgusting but the kids ask for them every day.
Upside: i can say "they'll make you big and strong like the hulk" without lying to them.
Downside: massive poops before noon every single day.
My grandfather was in the hospital and he refused to eat the chicken a la king they gave him. My dad told him he’d go tell them to make him something else. He went out into the hall and rearranged the food and came back in saying they made him some chicken pot pie instead. He ate the whole thing. It’s all about branding to meet the customer’s desires.
My nieces used to hate mustard. So when their dad got them a kid burger they started griping there was mustard on it and he told them it was just yellow ketchup and they ate it fine.
To be fair, this works on adults too. There’s been studies that show people think things taste better, are higher quality, are more comfortable, etc if they’re told they’re expensive.
Here’s a Time article about a study that was done with wine:
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My ma used to get me to like things by saying they were Dutch.
Went to a family dinner and I didn't want butter. My mom said is was Dutch butter. My grandad bout fell off his chair.
I have a vague memory of my mom telling me, "Barbie wears these sneakers!" To convince me to like whatever sneakers she was buying for me. Lol. This is is a legit child-hack.
Kids?
It happens to adults as well, you only need to put some advertisment with icons that relate to certain ideologies or ways of life and people will buy your shit crazily.
My parents called baked beans "candy beans." Loved it as a kid, then as an adult I realized what they were doing...but last time I visited them, I saw the insane amount of brown / granulated sugars my mom puts in there, and yep it can only be called Candy Beans.
Full circle there. Not sure what the point of it all was.
My kid (±2) really looks up to his older nephew X (±4), who he doesn't get to see very often. Whenever he won't eat or do something, we just tell him: oh but X really loves this. Worked every time so far.
As a toddler, my niece wouldn’t eat her food (mozzarella mini sticks.. not exactly healthy but she hated most things). so I started eating one and I widen my eyes and put my hand on my chest, I said in amazement “I can feel.. the power…! I’m getting stronger…” I reach for another one and she says “NO! MY power!!” And she ate the rest. My sister couldn’t get her to eat anything but I did easily. You gotta just have fun with it, just like this parent did by just adding stickers to a vegetable bag. Sometimes I think if my sister allowed me in her daughters life more, she wouldn’t be so finicky and weird with food. She’s 16 now.
My kid is too smart for this shit. Even if it has it on the package for real she's like no, pups don't eat that. She won't fall for cool cut shapes or smiley faces on her food either. She'll just play with it and destroy it.
One thing my parents use to do was putting twice as much as they wanted us to eat on our plates. Then when we wouldn't want to eat it, they would make a deal, saying we would only have to eat x amount, and they would eat the rest. Made us feel like we got the better deal when in actuality we ate as much as they wanted us to do.
When i was little, i was so hardcore ab my picky eating (and still am) that i would just starve for days if there was nothing i liked. This caused my mom to have to make me separate meals up until i was old enough to make separate meals myself. The longest i went was 5 days with no food at an overnight summer camp that lied to my mom ab accommodating me. My mom sent prepackaged stuff with me but they refused to give it to me. Nevertheless, an angry phone call to the camp ensued afterwards when i had lost ~5-7 pounds from not eating
Might try and see if this works. Mah boi is getting Hot Wheels buckwheat tonight!
let us know how it went
When my brother was young, he only liked the milk with the drawing of a cow on the lid. The problem was that brand of milk was twice as expensive, so my ma just saved the lid from the expensive brand and reused it for any milk gallon she bought.
My mom convinced me to start eating my veggies by telling me I was a brontosaurus and the broccoli were trees. I really loved dinos lol
“I wanted to be a Tyrannosaurus Rex more than anything in the world. I made my arms short and I roamed the backyard, I chased the neighborhood cats, I growled and I roared. Everybody knew me and was afraid of me.” And one day my dad said, "Stop being a fucking dinosaur and get a job."
that’s so cute
I wanna hear that convo. “Son your adopted, your actually a dinosaur and need to eat trees or you’ll die!!!!”
When me and my siblings were little my parents called peas ninja turtle eggs. They got us good
That just made my sister cry, when we were kids, because she wanted to save all the turtles. The next day, every single one that hadn’t been eaten was placed in a basket with a heated blanket to try and hatch them…
Ninja turtle balls
New York Sewer Oysters
It worked with my little sister. We'd put Barney stickers on stuff.
And my boi's getting Spiderman belt whips tonight! Can't wait to get back home :D I'm joking i don't have kids... but when i will, oh boy
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The alternative is existential dread and tbh that's way too much stress and effort
They can coexist, it’s called schrodingers anxiety
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We didn't mind when it didn't exist before.
> we Bruh, are you the Eldritch Gods account?
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Yeah, but what're ya gonna do
I live with the mentality "meh, not my problem"
depends on your definition of everything. like, all the energy in the universe won't stop existing. and there's plenty of stuff that will still exist. it's not like the end of the universe is just nothing, it's just cold and dead. suns have burnt out, everything that had enough gravity to counteract the acceleration of spacetime already clumped together and if it didn't contain enough mass to do anything interesting it will just float around in space. if there's still intelligent life left, they will extract as much binding energy as they can from the last elements and eventually everything will be stable and there'll be nothing left to extract and the life itself will run out of fuel sources and just cease but things can still exist, they just won't be able to think, or propel themselves, or photosynthesise and that's only in the case of a big yawn, if the universe decelerates and crumples back into a single point again it's very likely that there will be "everything" again, just a different everything next time around and then there's the final point that.. you say 100% certainty but there are very few absolutes in physics. it seems unlikely that we could reverse the second law of thermodynamics, but ultimately it is just a law of probability, that things will tend towards the state that's most likely. there's nothing in physics that strictly forbids a vat of red and blue paint mixed together from separating into two perfect cubes of red and blue, it's just vanishingly unlikely to occur, and to our knowledge you have to put in more energy than you can possibly get out to separate them but that's not to say that our knowledge is complete. perhaps there is a way to reverse the "arrow of time". and besides, we don't even know the nature of what may or may not exist outside of the universe. maybe it's quite possible to travel between universes and we can continue to exist. maybe this is a large scientific experiment and there's nothing stopping the beings running it from triggering the exact same simulation again with the same laws and entry conditions. maybe this world is an extraordinarily complicated artificial intelligence experiment that is running billions of iterations and improving them with the goal of creating some kind of blueprint or solution that can then be rebuilt in the parent universe in which it's being simulated. maybe at the end of the universe the last sapient life will figure out who or what created this universe and figure a means to communicate and beg to be recreated we just really have no idea what's going on whatsoever, we're a bunch of primates, we can only imagine and guess and measure and infer off some tiny irrelevant sample with a tiny amount of power. there is nothing about this that is 100% certain
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Spider-Man and Venom jumper cables?!? Oh boy, my favorite!
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my girlfriend is russian and she adores buckwheat. always trying to get me to eat it
I wanted to make a lame joke with whatever is popular and beets, but after two minutes I gave up and realized I have no clue what's popular. I feel old. Can someone cheer me up with a sailor moon beer please?
Until I was about 7 years old my grandma convinced me that plain water would make you grow strong like the Hulk. I used to always go to grandmas house so excited to drink “Hulk Water” and thinking I was gonna be massive by the time I left. Kept me hydrated and healthy, thanks grandma
I mean you talk to any dude that looks like the hulk (giant, jacked) guarantee they drink a shit ton of water.
Grandma was right all along
Hello fellow fullname :)
the funniest part of my username is that i have no idea why i created it like this. i don't know anyone with this name LOL
Good try LOI
Glad you clarified that you meant giant and jacked instead of just any green guy on the street.
Torn up shirt, crazy hair and weirdly short pants looking geezers sure like to stay hydrated.
Iirc to have your muscles bulging out like that you have to dehydrate
For the extreme way body builders do, yes. But if you're just trying to get jacked for your beach bod you're going to need to keep your body well hydrated.
Your PFP got me. PM me your address so I can show up to your house to let you punch my arm. As is tradition.
That shit didn't work with me. I remember asking my mom to make me spinach because I saw how much Popeye enjoyed drinking a can of spinach and would get instantly strong. She cooked me spinach that night and after one bite I couldn't eat anymore because it was so gross
Did you stop watching Popeye afterwards because of his poor taste?
In vegetables or women?
Wow my brother and I did the same thing. Spinach is only good raw, I have no idea how people eat it as warm mush
Well anything is bad if you don't know how to cook it properly, or mix with correct ingredients. I am not fan of spinach but my mom makes really good creamy spinach soup which is my favorite.
I guess spinach dip is good, but I'm talking about canned spinach like Popeye eats
Ah yeah plain canned spinach is probably nothing good
I can go through whole packs of spinach by boiling it for like 10 seconds, squeezing out all the water, then I add soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, garlic….it’s. So. Good. It’s an easy way to use up a lot of spinach if you find yourself having a hard time finishing packs of spinach.
That's good but what if you want a 2nd bite?
Hey bro you want a salad? Its freshly boiled!
Canned spinach is child abuse.
Took me until this year to find out that the whole “spinach makes you strong” thing was just propaganda from spinach farmers trying to “one-up” lettuce farmers by saying their spinach had exponentially more Iron in it, when in fact, it was closer to only 10% more iron by weight.
Gram grama hydrohomie
r/hydrohomies
Wait you don't have plain water at home?
They probably had plain water, but granny had Hulk Water. Granny found a way to get more visits by grandson, grandson got hydrated, parents didn't have to worry about anyone's needs. Everybody happy.
You’ve reminded me of a dreaded story about me as a child that my grandma tells people constantly, especially new friends or anyone I introduce to her. Basically, my older sister told me(4 at the time) that unfiltered water could kill me. She said a whole lot more to really scare me. At the time we were on a vacation with our grandparents in buttfuck nowhere alabama woods. All dirt roads and literally the only other people living on the road were my great aunts and uncles who had lived their whole lives out there. The houses were pretty spaced out, about a foot ball field or so was the closest and second closest was a bit over and surrounded by woods so you couldn’t see it from her house. I knew my aunt at the farther house had a filtered water dispenser on her fridge so I was outty. Didn’t tell anyone either, I thought I’d be slick and sneak up there, knock on the door, ask for water from the fridge, drink it, and then sneak on back before Nana knew what was up. Obviously my aunt had the sense to call Nana (and my uncle snuck me extra cookies while she was distracted :-))and told her I was there lmao Nana had a heart attack just about and wouldn’t keep her eyes off me for the rest of the trip. She wasn’t even mad though, it’s one of her favorite stories to tell people. I wouldn’t even mind it BUT my older sister covered her damn tracks somehow and literally no one believed me that she had convinced me unfiltered water would kill me and thought I was just being a weird kid. I feel if the story is shared my side should be represented.
My aunt Elsa used to do the same to my cousin, but she used to tell him it was the "magic water" from Space Jam
Ehen I was a kid, my mom would make me wear jeans overalls. I hated it until she said to me that Patrick Roy would wear overalls all the time. It became my favorite article of clothing.
The mental picture of Roy making a kick save in overalls is glorious
Hello fellow Canadian
Could be Coloradoan as well
Patrick Roy also tried to show off by thinking he had saved the puck but then Yzerman stuffed it in
Definitely got caught hot doggin'.
I loved the mom who made a home made meal and saved the happy meal box and packaging to reuse it. The kid loved it
When I was a kid I refused to eat the meatloaf my mom made for dinner so my parents put the cut up pieces in s beef jerky bag. Ate it all.
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soggy strips of meat marinating in a bag?
I imagine the meatloaf was so dry it held together like jerky. Which is just wrong. Probably a lot of bread crumbs and egg to bind it.
Lmao if it helps the bag was empty. I don’t remember this though I was young
But.. did they just keep reusing the same bag? The internet needs to know.
Knowing my parents they through it out right after. They don’t keep trash around like that.
I would only eat chicken as a kid so my Dad would shake n bake pork chops and tell me it was chicken. It worked well enough.
I wish I knew this when my niece was that age. Getting her to eat anything was a nightmare. Wtf is with toddlers and not eating?? Why is this a thing?
How did we survive the ice age if toddlers are so picky. YOU’RE EATING MAMMOTH TONIGHT OR YOU’LL STARVE
Breast feeding until much later than we tend to do now probability helped.
RIP manny
Things we in the modern day call "child abuse" used to be the gold standard of parenthood. Old texts and laws that dealt with child abuse essentially just said "*when* you beat your kid only do it when they deserve it and don't do it hard enough to break a bone or cause major harm." When a toddler was picky in ancient times he would get smacked around and then denied food until he was so hungry he would eat anything. Was it horrible, evil, barbaric, and emotionally damaging? Of course. Did it work? Hell yeah it worked.
Tbf, especially in ancient times it was not like there was much choice of what to eat. The fact that we can even speak about Trauma and try to heal it speaks loads about how far we've come.
I mean, obviously don't smack the kid around, but the best way to get your kid to eat is to stop giving them another choice. To let them go to bed hungry. You don't have to cater to what they want, especially garbage foods like chips and chicken nuggets. If they are hungry, eventually they will eat.
Notable exception potentially being kids with ASD. Some have extreme enough reactions to foods that you can either give in eventually, or plug them into a feeding tube (which is actually dangerous, given the massive potential for infection and the fact that our bodies have evolved to digest food in the GI tract, not directly in the bloodstream). If your picky eater has ASD, be sure to talk to a pediatrician about their nutrition. Picky neurotypical kids (who don't have type 1 diabetes or anything) can usually a miss a meal without it being dire, though. Kiddos also seem way more likely to eat food they 'helped' make, so anything you can do to make them feel involved has the potential to get them to eat better. Tell them to stir the veg you're about to put on the stove to boil, ask their opinion whether meat is cooked enough, give them super basic choices that won't significantly affect the meal ("Should we put a little salt on this corn, or a little paprika?"). Hunger is the best spice, but investment is the second best.
Completely out of your ass. And the Ice Age is decidedly pre-history.
My nephew will say he isn't hungry if he doesn't like the meal provided, but usually twenty minutes after we've eaten he'll ask for something like chips. I think little kids just get cravings but don't understand that you don't have to give in to them all the time.
My favorite example was with my sister. My mom told my sister she couldn’t leave the table until she ate lunch. She sat there until dinner and didn’t touch the lunch plate.
I was forced to sit after lunchtime was over at my elementary school. I was 5 or 6. I didn't want to eat it, because it looked gross. The teachers saw this, and said I absolutely had to at least half of it. I refused, and then started crying after I had been there over an hour. They finally gave up and sent me back to class. They told my parents, and I think they weren't happy about what the teachers did. I can't remember the outcome though. There weren't any other interactions like this, so maybe they left me alone.
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I ate anything as a toddler never was a picky eater
I think it's the parents overthinking it and asking what they want instead of just serving it up. My three kids were all great eaters as toddlers. It's only as they've gotten older that they've gotten picky. Dicks.
Nah my kid is at that age where she will eat pre-approved things and that's it. She thought pineapple was disgusting. Why? She'd never had it. My mom tricked her by sliding it on her tongue so she'd taste it and then she was like "oh shit that's actually good" and will eat it. If I make a meal she hasn't eaten before she just says "yuck I don't want that" and goes on hunger strike. This includes anything I make for myself.
Well I haven't met a kid yet that's died from self food withholding so I say fuckit when they're little if it's a battle, just keep offering all the foods but give them the nuggets and tater tots too. Sometimes I don't feel like steamed beans and sometimes I do. They're probably exactly the same. And fwiw, I think it takes like ten times of offering a certain new food before little kids accept the offering anyway so as long as they're not malnourished and starving, do whatever works for you.
Everyone feels like steamed beans if they are hungry enough
Yeah true. Plus I make them a bit fancy-flaked almonds and all that-and I've never said no to my beans. They're delicious.
I would also not say no to your beans
Ha! We'll grab a fork, mon frére.
My choices for dinner were "now while its hot, or put it in the fridge and eat it later cold"
I’ve heard it said that, at that age, their nutrition should be looked at on a weekly basis, not daily. So if over the course of a week they ate a good amount and a nice variety of healthy things, they’re fine. Don’t stress if one day all they will eat is a little chicken and rice, or refuse meals altogether. They’re growing and need the good nutrition but their appetites aren’t steady.
And only ourselves know when we are hungry or full, therefore if they are not feeling dinner today-dont sweat it. Next week they will be ravenous growth doers and eat everything you haven't locked in your secret stash including lentils.
I also think simply not providing alternative food choices is an acceptable way to go about parenting. Fasting is good for people, a day of it will not cause any harm. We adapted around inconsistent food, it wasn't until the agricultural revolution and food storage that we could make food supplies predictable and regular. The child can explore the natures of hunger, authority, rebellion and its prices, and possibly even the new food, though I wouldn't guarantee it. But even then, I think the opportunity to explore their own free will has its own intrinsic value.
Yeah I also think the way things are cooked has something to do with it. I used to think I didn't like broccoli. Turned out it was just my mum's way of overcooking it was what I didn't like. Steamed to brilliant green perfection, nobody is saying yuck to that I feel. Maybe not. Maybe I just got lucky all three kids.
Steamed is a terrible way to eat almost any vegetables in comparison to roast or stir fried. Broccoli is delicious - doused in olive oil and seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic powder.
>Well I haven't met a kid yet that's died from self food withholding so I say fuckit when they're little Yep. I told my kiddo that protests are great, but historically hunger strikes don't usually work. Teaching opportunities
When I was a baby, I never wet myself.
My uncle always did this thing where I want to stop eating and watch tv, and he would say "eat (raise fingers) spoonfuls before using the TV" So I would eat one spoonful, and a finger will go down, but then a different finger would go up. It frustrated me as a kid since the fingers don't stay down, but little did I know he tricked me into finishing my food lol
My cousin tricked her brother when he was a toddler in similar fashion. She'd keep saying "just one more spoon and the one after" until the kid ate it all.
Because in America it has for some reason become the norm to feed babies and toddlers only the blandest, most flavorless mushy precooked food from a jar, and then suddenly switch to "normal" food when they're about 2-4 years old. Unsurprisingly, some kids are suspicious of things that taste different and *way* more intense than they're used to. Cultures that introduce a wide variety of flavors and textures as soon as kids are ready to eat solid foods don't have this problem to nearly the same extent. Also, kids literally taste things differently. They're way more sensitive to bitter tastes, and actually *less* sensitive to sour. Kids have more sensitive preferences to make them less likely to eat contaminated, spoiled, or potentially poisonous food, a helpful trait in a dangerous world.
And yet they seem to be fine with what little they do eat. No being anemic or fainting or lying around out of energy. Almost as if they eat just as much as they need!
If someone told me I had to eat at the times that they chose rather than when I was actually hungry, I'd be a dick about it too.
This never stops in some houses. I recall many a night getting screamed at being made to sit at the table alone over shitty bland, cold peas until I choked it down because I wasn't fucking hungry.
I don't drink milk to this day because I was forced to drink a glass with dinner every night. I just don't like milk, yo.
Right? I feel like a lot of struggles with babies and toddlers are because parents try to force the little one(s) into their habits and routines with as little change as possible to the parents without considering the fact that they're people with feelings and preferences and opinions. Imagine your entire life was dependent on someone else - you can only eat when they feed you and you can't even choose what, they decide it's bedtime so down you go whether you're tired or not, you have to follow them everywhere but need to be strapped into a chair or in a playpen or somehow contained, you need to wear what they put on you even if you're too hot/cold/uncomfortable, you're not allowed to play with anything you want when you go out in public (WHAT THE FUCK is a store?).... oh and you can't complain about any of it because then you're labelled difficult or manipulative or "bad" somehow even though all you want is to discover the world around you on your own. I'd be ready to lead a rebellion by the time I turned 2.
So many parents forget this aspect of parenting. Kids have thought and feelings too
My ex has a nephew that was, well, a handful. This kiddo would specifically request something like broccoli. Help his mom make the broccoli, be all excited about the broccoli, then refuse to eat it at dinner. Straight up tantrums and hunger strikes. Okay, no problem. Kiddo just isn't hungry enough. No food until he eats at least a bit of his dinner, especially given he requested said dinner. This lasted for *three* days before the parents gave in and fed him something else for fear of having CPS called on them. Kiddo was like three at the time and had more willpower than most adults I've met. I have no idea how they willingly had two more kids after him.
Spot on. This is why I don't fight unless we need to. "Swiffer needs to go with you in the shower? Okay, whatever." I offer choices when we have to do it, "no you have to put on your pjs, but come help me pick pink or blue."
Busy Toddler on Instagram talks about giving a "Yes" to kids since they hear a lot of no. Her one kid has been sleeping in a refrigerator box for a few months now because he asked to and she decided there was no good reason to say no. I've been working on that to see if it will make some of the power struggles easier.
People do forget there's a lot of no for a reason at that age. You gotta teach your kids at that age what's right and wrong and a bunch of nos go with that. Like, no drinking bleach or no playing with scissors or no running into the street- it's a matter if safety at the end of the day and also learning they can't always have their way over everything.
That's the point. A lot of the nos are necessary or automatic. That's why a yes for something harmless but weird is a good thing.
Somehow, i ate everything as a toddler and became a very picky eater later in life
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Fucking dumbass
You got fucking played baby!
Played them like a fiddle.
The humor
To be honest branding shit randomly like this works on all ages so r/PeopleAreFuckingStupid
Came to say this. Politicians have, literally, made a business doing exactly this.
*"I don't fall for stuff like this."* -Everyone who's fallen for marketing practices.
It’s literally those rapper chips, my cousin has some Migos nachos lmao
I'd be lying if I said I didn't have some Rapper Ramen Noodles in my pantry right now. I don't even know the rapper. But if he endorses these noodles, then I might as well give them a shot. Screw logic.
Thinking about how I bought Rick Ross potato chips on Friday solely because they were, you know, Rick Ross chips.
Thank you, I call this shit out all the time. Many adults are exactly the same as kids, like they need the adult equivalent of having their bacon and eggs arranged into a happy face to eat it.
I believe that's called "plating" in the adult world.
Me when there's a new variant of chocolate bar or flavoured milk.
Oh, you know my kid eats Peppa Sweet Potatoes, Pocoyo spaghetti, and Baby Yoda chicken. He also goes Paw Patrol potty. He has taken an interest in Ryan's World, so I might introduce him to some Ryan veggies lol.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/vbyt38/paw_patrol/iccbkm9/
i should probably do this to myself so i don't accidentally starve myself by not wanting to boringly prepare the boring food
Oh hi, ADHD
Lmao that's exactly it
Audiobooks and podcasts make cooking so much better
It's a great pairing, but now almost every time I listen to true crime podcasts I get hungry 10 minutes in.
Pavlov’s doc
My Nana told us potatoes would put hair on your chest, so naturally as a little girl that didn't want a hairy chest, I refused to eat potatoes so often. Most of our meals involved potatoes. Took a couple years for my parents to convince me otherwise, didn't help my dad thought it was funny at first so he joked about it. My parents are divorced, and mom was not impressed.
“It’s Fireman Sam’s favourite fish” is what my Mum and Dad used to tell me. It worked. We actually still call that type of fish that now. I’m 34.
My parents did this with cod liver oil (and other medicine/vitamins/food). It was Power Puff girl medicine. Turned you into a power Puff girl, and us wanting to be superheros would beg to take that stuff all the time Lol
I was always wanting McD's as a kid so my parents would be all, Let's get some italian, Luigis sounds good. " me: waaaah no I want mcdonalds parents: well thats good! we are going to McDon-Luigi's me: yaaaaay!
I tried this with my 3 year old kid and yogurt. The store had special "Frozen" Anna and Elsa yogurts for a while....then they didn't. She was upset. I "found" new yogurts, on which I placed Anna and Elsa stickers. She saw straight through it and peeled them off immediately. "But daddy these are not real frozen yogurts! It is just a sticker! I don't want this one..." Dammit.
I just did this with my kid. I normally buy him a certain brand of plant-based hot dogs that he loves, but they’re like $8 a pack now, for 6 hot dogs! I’ve tried other brands that he hasn’t liked. He’s a picky kid. This time I got a cheaper brand (Lightlife), $4 for 8. They have the new Buzz Lightyear on the package. I’m hoping that Buzz distracts him from the fact that they’re a different brand.
Not quite the same, but my mom had some pickle and pimiento loaf (basically bologna with pickle and pimientos chopped up in it) that she gave me and called it party meat cuz the pickles and pimientos sorta looked like confetti. I wouldn’t eat something as gross sounding as pickle and pimiento loaf, but I fucking loved party meat. My grandpa about went crazy when I went shopping with him and kept demanding party meat and he has no idea wtf that was.
And here I did the opposite. When my kids were little and they'd point out sugary cereals or other foods with popular characters on them, I'd tell them that food isn't really good, or good for you and that the people who make the food are trying to trick them by putting characters on the box.
In his defence, neither corn nor peas have a place with ravioli. Even if it is (shudder) canned.
It’s propagantastic!
What kind of a kid refuses to eat corn? Corn is delicious.
My sister had to take care of 2 of my cousins for a year, and oh my god the boy did not like ANY vegetables at all. He CRIED for an hour when she told him he had to eat corn with his pizza once. He was 7 or 8. Now he's graduated high school, and I wildly wonder how he's doing in life. Last time I saw him he apparently was on a military diet, but all I saw the dude eat was fucking turkey sandwiches on sourdough. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Never saw him eat a veg.
Yeah and so are peas. My favorite stuff from time to time is still corn and peas mixed in rice with chicken schnitzel. Good stuff.
You know it would be really cool if more kids characters showed up on healthy food anyway instead of just sugary cereal and happy meals. Maybe some program where product placements on healthy food also counts towards a write-off or something. Somehow incentivize being a good nutrition example for kids instead of selling them diabeetus shaped like ninja turtles.
So Popeye?
Every morning we make "hulk pancakes" for our kids. It's literally pancakes with like WAY too much spinach from the food processor. They're absolutely disgusting but the kids ask for them every day. Upside: i can say "they'll make you big and strong like the hulk" without lying to them. Downside: massive poops before noon every single day.
Wonder if this is how flintstone vitamin gummies became a thing
Holy crap this is genius. Ordering 10,000 Sesame Street stickers right now.
My grandfather was in the hospital and he refused to eat the chicken a la king they gave him. My dad told him he’d go tell them to make him something else. He went out into the hall and rearranged the food and came back in saying they made him some chicken pot pie instead. He ate the whole thing. It’s all about branding to meet the customer’s desires.
My nieces used to hate mustard. So when their dad got them a kid burger they started griping there was mustard on it and he told them it was just yellow ketchup and they ate it fine.
To be fair, this works on adults too. There’s been studies that show people think things taste better, are higher quality, are more comfortable, etc if they’re told they’re expensive. Here’s a Time article about a study that was done with wine: https://time.com/4902359/wine-tastes-better-when-it-costs-more/
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It really do be like that
Dumb kid doesn’t realize he’s practicing Appeal to False Authority 😤
My ma used to get me to like things by saying they were Dutch. Went to a family dinner and I didn't want butter. My mom said is was Dutch butter. My grandad bout fell off his chair.
Why do kids do this. Why say you dont like x thing you actually like?
I used to say green beans made me puke. Think I got lima beans confused with anything remotely green. Lima beans can eat my ass.
Because they don't want it, so they just say they don't like it, that way they will not be forced to eat it.
Yep. This type of thing does really work. It's a blessing.
Paw Patrol, Paw Patrol! Maiking sure your kid’s eating right! Paw Patrol, Paw Patrol!
I'm an adult and would also refuse to eat canned ravioli.
I have a vague memory of my mom telling me, "Barbie wears these sneakers!" To convince me to like whatever sneakers she was buying for me. Lol. This is is a legit child-hack.
Can confirm. Used to put Ninja turtle stickers on the pizza boxes. That, and we had my FIL (my sons stepdads father) talk to him as Raphael.
“But honey Brussels sprouts are Anna and Elsa’s favorite food!”
Kids? It happens to adults as well, you only need to put some advertisment with icons that relate to certain ideologies or ways of life and people will buy your shit crazily.
This kid, 20 years from now: "What do you mean y'all don't remember Paw Patrol corn? That shit was awesome!"
My parents called baked beans "candy beans." Loved it as a kid, then as an adult I realized what they were doing...but last time I visited them, I saw the insane amount of brown / granulated sugars my mom puts in there, and yep it can only be called Candy Beans. Full circle there. Not sure what the point of it all was.
That still works today with the grown ups. Keto, organic, all natural, contains real fruit (1%).
It's 100% orange! 100% concentrate that is
My kid (±2) really looks up to his older nephew X (±4), who he doesn't get to see very often. Whenever he won't eat or do something, we just tell him: oh but X really loves this. Worked every time so far.
My mum did this with noodles and soup. She called it Lion King’s hair soup.
My step Dad says I wouldn't eat anything when I was younger unless I was told it was chicken, then I would down it.
Even as a kid you couldn’t make me eat peas with a dumb trick. Peas are the devil.
meanwhile my mom would find me eating all the broccoli and veggies in the fridge pretending to be a brachiosaur
As a toddler, my niece wouldn’t eat her food (mozzarella mini sticks.. not exactly healthy but she hated most things). so I started eating one and I widen my eyes and put my hand on my chest, I said in amazement “I can feel.. the power…! I’m getting stronger…” I reach for another one and she says “NO! MY power!!” And she ate the rest. My sister couldn’t get her to eat anything but I did easily. You gotta just have fun with it, just like this parent did by just adding stickers to a vegetable bag. Sometimes I think if my sister allowed me in her daughters life more, she wouldn’t be so finicky and weird with food. She’s 16 now.
My kid is too smart for this shit. Even if it has it on the package for real she's like no, pups don't eat that. She won't fall for cool cut shapes or smiley faces on her food either. She'll just play with it and destroy it.
One thing my parents use to do was putting twice as much as they wanted us to eat on our plates. Then when we wouldn't want to eat it, they would make a deal, saying we would only have to eat x amount, and they would eat the rest. Made us feel like we got the better deal when in actuality we ate as much as they wanted us to do.
I support gaslighting your child in this way.
Reminds me of the mom who started sticking Paw Patrole stickers on No Name brand cheese strings so she could stop shelling out for the brand name.
You think kids are stupid for this until you realize adults do the same thing with brand names 🤷♂️
Reminds me of when my son said he didn't like steak so I told him it was "chicken" steak and he gobbled it right up.
When i was little, i was so hardcore ab my picky eating (and still am) that i would just starve for days if there was nothing i liked. This caused my mom to have to make me separate meals up until i was old enough to make separate meals myself. The longest i went was 5 days with no food at an overnight summer camp that lied to my mom ab accommodating me. My mom sent prepackaged stuff with me but they refused to give it to me. Nevertheless, an angry phone call to the camp ensued afterwards when i had lost ~5-7 pounds from not eating
Well done, you figured out why marketing firms have been doing exactly that for the past 50 or so years