I kind of feel like feeding your kids is a scam...I feel like I was tricked into thinking that if you just followed all the "rules" and gave your baby/toddler slow-roasted fresh-from-the-farmers market heritage squash with free-range salt that my offspring would just gobble it up. If I start off the "right" way with entirely homemade purees introduced in the correct order, interspersed with the ideal baby-led-weaning foods cut in perfect proportions in ideal serving sizes at the exact right time of day, then my toddler with request broccoli for his birthday dinner and blissfully never know what a french fry tastes like.
I have 2 kids, my first kid likes eating about 6 different things. I felt like somehow I had failed all the food rules and caused his pickiness. Then I had a second kid. She eats almost everything and I barely put in half as much effort into custom made baby food with her. Made me feel like I actually don't have a tonne of influence over their food preferences.
Magical birthday parties are a fucking scam! Along with holidays, just seconding that too.
Let me know if anyone has any great ideas for a magical birthday party for an 8 year old introvert who doesn’t like sweets and loud noises. And it’s in a week. Damn I wish we could just do a park party.
The "traditional" order of getting married, living together, and then procreating is a scam!
A lot of us have started cohabiting before marriage but honestly we need to start having kids before getting married as well. There are a lot of days where I question whether or not I would have married my husband at all if we had had our child first, or if he would be more of a partner than a child if he felt like it was easier to lose me because we weren't married.
-Orgasmic/fulfilling/empowering “natural” (unmedicated) births, and that birth is something that your body was meant to do - or at least making it feel as though these are attainable for everyone if you have the right mindset and “do the right things”
-The Cascade of Interventions (TM)!!!
People used to die in childbirth all.the.time. People still do.
Traumatic or difficult births are no one’s fault and yet often there’s a lot of judgement around the necessity of interventions
-the last scam - when your baby comes out it will all be worth it. I was just glad it was over
Clean houses are a SCAM.
I kind of feel like feeding your kids is a scam...I feel like I was tricked into thinking that if you just followed all the "rules" and gave your baby/toddler slow-roasted fresh-from-the-farmers market heritage squash with free-range salt that my offspring would just gobble it up. If I start off the "right" way with entirely homemade purees introduced in the correct order, interspersed with the ideal baby-led-weaning foods cut in perfect proportions in ideal serving sizes at the exact right time of day, then my toddler with request broccoli for his birthday dinner and blissfully never know what a french fry tastes like.
I have 2 kids, my first kid likes eating about 6 different things. I felt like somehow I had failed all the food rules and caused his pickiness. Then I had a second kid. She eats almost everything and I barely put in half as much effort into custom made baby food with her. Made me feel like I actually don't have a tonne of influence over their food preferences.
Magical birthday parties are a fucking scam! Along with holidays, just seconding that too.
Let me know if anyone has any great ideas for a magical birthday party for an 8 year old introvert who doesn’t like sweets and loud noises. And it’s in a week. Damn I wish we could just do a park party.
The whole “unmedicated vaginal birth being more desirable” scam really grinds my gears.
You need to engage your kids all the time for "their development" scam.
The "traditional" order of getting married, living together, and then procreating is a scam!
A lot of us have started cohabiting before marriage but honestly we need to start having kids before getting married as well. There are a lot of days where I question whether or not I would have married my husband at all if we had had our child first, or if he would be more of a partner than a child if he felt like it was easier to lose me because we weren't married.
Holidays are a scam.
Birth Scams:
-Orgasmic/fulfilling/empowering “natural” (unmedicated) births, and that birth is something that your body was meant to do - or at least making it feel as though these are attainable for everyone if you have the right mindset and “do the right things”
-The Cascade of Interventions (TM)!!!
People used to die in childbirth all.the.time. People still do.
Traumatic or difficult births are no one’s fault and yet often there’s a lot of judgement around the necessity of interventions
-the last scam - when your baby comes out it will all be worth it. I was just glad it was over
All the school activities that fall outside of school hours. Please no.