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Mild rant!
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It's up to the adults around the table to include teenagers in the conversation, that's what we always do, the chat is like any other, ask questions of those sitting around you and just get involved. If they are the only youngster in a small group meal that is...
As for the other stuff, yes they should be capable of doing all of it. However, what teen is going to actively bother making a bed when it's just shaking a duvet, which can be done immediately before they get back in? Messing with food is down to parental teaching, not entirely sure what is meant by that though. Cutting of nails, yes but again, teenagers can't be ar*ed with a lot of things and I'm sure especially if male, nail cutting is probably low down on priority list. Wait til a young lady crops up though, swift change of habits may ensue. ;-)0 -
Can I just say I'm not a parent, so maybe have unrealistic expectations, but what should a 13 year old be capable of?
Trimming his own fingernails?
Mixing his own food together on his plate?!
Sitting at a restaurant with an adult group without gadgets and join in the conversation?
Making a bed?
Not sure abut some of those but is it an unrealistic expectation to expect an adult to return to a forum discussion that they started?loose does not rhyme with choose but lose does and is the word you meant to write.0 -
Person_one wrote: »Two rudes don't make a polite.
Nope, which is why I have the manners to stay quiet, rather than start the verbal attacks in the first place.I could dream to wide extremes, I could do or die: I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch the world go by.Yup you are officially Rock n Roll
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The OP sounds like someone I work with, they have given a home to husbands orphaned teenage nephew , who apparently never does anything right. The latest Issue is he doesn't mix his food when he eats but likes to eat his meal item by item ......Vuja De - the feeling you'll be here later0
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My 16yo does that and has from being very young eg he will eat all of his chicken kiev before moving on to peas and then finishes them before eating another item. It's not the way I eat as I like a variety of tastes and textures on a plate, but I certainly hadn't considered it anything for concern......The OP sounds like someone I work with, they have given a home to husbands orphaned teenage nephew , who apparently never does anything right. The latest Issue is he doesn't mix his food when he eats but likes to eat his meal item by item ......0 -
I had a suspicion that's what mixing food meant. That's how I eat, I have a set order to my food. When my mental health is bad I've even been known to eat each item as a separate 'course', one after the other on different plates.Unless I say otherwise 'you' means the general you not you specifically.0
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My 16yo does that and has from being very young eg he will eat all of his chicken kiev before moving on to peas and then finishes them before eating another item. It's not the way I eat as I like a variety of tastes and textures on a plate, but I certainly hadn't considered it anything for concern......
I regard it as eating my favourite items on the plate first, which is usually the veggies (and possibly avoiding something I really don't like, but didn't want to make a fuss about if a plate is presented to me with it already on there.). Another ex said I was weird and the correct way of doing it was chop everything up into tiny pieces, mush any potatoes up, swirl it all about and then eat it in a homogenous mass. I have to admit that, to me, that made it resemble pigswill or what would be given to the chickens. But I never would have said that to him at the time - or told anybody else - I just avoided eating in front of anybody again for ages, as I felt too self conscious afterwards,
Who needs to be criticised about eating food?I could dream to wide extremes, I could do or die: I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch the world go by.Yup you are officially Rock n Roll0 -
Other way round for me - save the best till last. If it's not obvious or I'm trying something new then a taste of each bit (in the order of what I think it'll be) to be sure. If possible, things like sausages should be an even number, if there's no choice then they need to be cut up so that there's an even number of pieces, of similar size.
There's an episode of the Big Bang Theory where Sheldon can't figure out what order to eat something in. I laughed, but at the same time was thinking 'but he's right'.Unless I say otherwise 'you' means the general you not you specifically.0 -
My grandkids don't food mix either. They eat one section at a time. I don't give a hoot as long as they eat it
I tend not to mix if it's a traditional meal. I'm fine with Indian, Chinese etc but for traditional meals I have to have clear spaces around my different food types and I only add gravy to veg once my meat is all eaten
We all have our weird ( to other people) ways, but as long as the food is eaten does it really matter ?0 -
We have a no phones at the table rule. I spent the last week on a family holiday with my parents, siblings and their offspring, age range 9 to 89. We ate our meals at one massive table and it was good to see that nobody fiddled with their phones at mealtimes.
As for not mixing food; it is a bid odd but not that uncommon. Does it really matter as long as it gets eaten?0
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