Posted on 04/10/2015 2:21:47 PM PDT by BJ1
Man up, buttercups! Specifically those who are going to support democrats....
“This caused a lot tension last Christmas at my home, my new wife cooked Christmas dinner for the family for the 1st time and went out of her way to make nice kids meals, but one after one of my family members with kids showed up with their own frozen box of Chicken Nuggets and Mac&Cheese in hand to give their kids.”
I’ve never heard of such a thing. I can imagine how your wife must have felt.
I think many emerge from the home believing that their wants and desires will be accommodated and are shocked to the core when they aren’t.
My father was one of 9 children. All were expected to thank their mother respectfully for the meal set before them - no one dared asked for any changes to the menu. If you forgot to thank her for the meal, you had gruel for your next meal. If you forgot to thank her for the gruel, you had gruel for your next meal (rinse and repeat).
My boss recounted a tale of his youth - he informed his mother that he was now vegitarian. She accepted this easily and informed him that he would be in charge of preparing vegitarian meals for himself and she would continue to cook for the rest of the family. This arrangement lasted about one week....
This all has a sad side to it. Between the ages of 2-5, children need to feel like they are the apple of their parents eyes (high levels of bond and attention) and then they need to grow up and accept natural parental love in maturing proportion without being the center of attention. Many of the kids I’m talking about go through those 2-5 years as a complication in their parents busy lives. They don’t get their emotional/psychological needs met and they tacitly decide to be the center of their own attention, the apple of their own eyes if mom and dad won’t spend enough time with them. And they go through the rest of their lives that way.
And it’s not necessarily parental neglect (although that is surely the vast marjority in our present society) that can bring this about - sometimes mom is gravely ill and dad is working 2 jobs to keep the home together etc. I understand families face really difficult challenges and respect all who do whatever they can do to protect the family. But our culture in general has replaced real parenting with “buddy” parenting and children setting the menu and other aspects of life. I think THOSE parents marginalize the kids when the kids are at greatest need (early years of life) and then start phasing in as “cool mom” or “fun dad” as the child grows to be more “interesting” to the parents but by then it’s too late. THeir speshul snowflake no longer wants the bond but demands an xbox and the latest tennis shoe etc....
Might as well lower it to two. Let animals vote also. We’d probably have better outcomes.
What is it with m and c and young kids? Whenever my wife and I take our grandkids and their parents out to eat, a few of the older kids always want mac and cheese.
When visiting one of the grandkids a few months ago for his birthday, his mother insisted on driving an extra thirty miles from his house to go to a special restaurant that the kid liked. The restaurant specialty is steak.
Guess what the kid (seven years old) ordered? You got it...mac and cheese. His mother said he wanted to go to the place because he likes the decor. I just smiled and gritted my teeth. The wife was not happy either.
As a personal aside, I never ate mac and cheese as a kid because (1) at that time I hated cheese and (2) my mother never made it. (I never ate in a restaurant until I was in my teens.) How did I survive lo all these years without eating one spoonful of mac and cheese? lol
Bingo. The little ba$tard$ are treated to be special, so they act that way as well. This insanity will not end any time soon.
I don’t remember ever being stressed as a teen. Well I would get together with my friends and drive up to the dump late at night and we would shoot rats!
Every family gathering we always have Mac & cheese. Home made from scratch but it is there. 11 grands, you can make them all happy with Mac & cheese & a dinner roll w/jelly!
Oh my....what idiocy...those poor kids are being raised to be little spoiled brats
Wow, I don’t know anyone personally who spoils their kids like that. (Although my sister’s step grandkids behaved that way - their home life is definitely not like most of our friends)
I’m sorry for your wife. That must have been hard to be gracious about that after working so hard to make a nice dinner.
Character is made up of the small unselfish decisions we choose to make each day -for our spouses, our parents, our kids (And remembering that being unselfish doesn’t mean giving them all they want, but doing what is best for them which sometimes means enduring their wrath and sighs because we stand up to them and DONT give them exactly what they want).
I've reached the point in my life where I'd tell them they either all ate what my wife made, or they could leave. Screw it. It's disrespectful and insulting and I'd tell them so. With any luck, they'd leave and I'd never have to deal with their subhuman crap again.
/rant
Dr. Laura has said several times that she was outraged, because she was an admitted feminazi at the time, when her father said that men will get away with only what their women let them get away with.
She is correct. Men need fathers to train them and their women to keep them on track.
Forget Chemtrails or Fluoride in the water, if there's a conspiracy going on, it's mac & cheese. They got to be putting some chemical or something in it to make kids get so addicted and crazy over it
Too bad illegal aliens have all the jobs that used to go to teenagers. There once was a time when teens did not have the time to be bored and stressed.
>>>They should take the red pill.<<<
You take the red pill and have no illusions how women really are is what I think you are saying. Well I am divorced and I don’t see women being all nice, pretty and full of good motives like I used to. I see women to be just like men but with a different set of rules. They are often just as debased and vile as men. But I got married again because that is how I believe God wired us in our desires.
If you follow down the path of MGTOW aren’t you going to be lonely the rest of your life?
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