re: Children who won't eat their food and the parents who allow this

I’ve seen it all now.

We’re on an LSU board where people are openly critical of players, coaches, the AD, and politicians. People that have no personal experience in any of these areas. Yet they want to check credentials before allowing someone to be critical of parents.

Again, it’s sad that you don’t see how comical this is.

Remember when your parents would tell you there were starving kids in Africa that would love to eat that food?

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What if you are making what you think is the best decisions for your children and someone without children criticizes you?

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You thinking it the best and it being the best in reality don't have to coincide. The person without kids can be right.

Do you go to a restaurant and let other people order for you? I am not a fan of meatloaf. When we have it, I just eat a sandwich. There is probably a distinction Inam missing. My house is not a prison where they have to eat what I give them or starve. I also like to choose my own clothes and the people I hang out with. I suppose if I want my child to wear pink socks, green pants and a dunce hat to school and they choose not to wear those clothes then they go without clothes even though it’s what I am offering?

It’s not like I am only giving the child donuts or candy canes if they ask for it. But, to ask them to eat oysters or boudin balls because that’s what I cooked and they can like it or leave it seems archaic.

Do you tell your guests they can only eat what you offer? Of course not. Similar to the sharing thing. We make kids share their toys, but if some stranger were to come to our house asking to share our car or truck we would tell them to kick rocks.

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I made a lot of assumptions about how to raise my kids. That shite goes out the window once you have them. I’m a parent of 2 boys under 5. And I still don’t know what I’m doing

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1. That's not suprising
2. Maybe that says more about you than other people

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Pretending you know exactly what to do is foolish

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No one said that

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You've done nothing to refute that but babble incoherent and factually inaccurate bullshite

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Well, I have firsthand experience. Do you? Now I’m going watch home alone with my oldest as my 1 year old is constantly trying to get into everything. Enjoy your day.

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So, because I don’t have any coaching experience, do you think Coach O should listen to what I say?

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Who cares if he listens? Why do you think it’s acceptable to express your opinions on coaching if you have no experience coaching college football?

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So, because I don’t have any coaching experience, do you think Coach O should listen to what I say?

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If you know what you're talking about sure, but you don't so in this specific case, no.

Mike Leach never played college football. He seems to be doing OK at coaching it.

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I’ve seen it all now.

We’re on an LSU board where people are openly critical of players, coaches, the AD, and politicians. People that have no personal experience in any of these areas. Yet they want to check credentials before allowing someone to be critical of parents.

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I'll admit to looking sideways at non-parents giving discipline advice but that's not the premise of this thread. Eating nothing but a single processed food is clearly bad for you.

Let's take this one step further. Say the kid will only eat marshmallows and the parents only feed him marshmallows. Do you have to be a parent to recognize that as unhealthy behavior?

My parents eventually gave up with me and green beans, apparently I hated them and still do.

Of course the first baby food my son got excited for was green beans.