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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 314370" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: blue">Uh, no. He had THREE options, if you think about it. Either go with you to dinner, stay home and make something for his dinner, or when he was done diddling around, make something for himself.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: blue">He is 15. You had already eaten and the kitchen (in my house) is closed after dinner. If he has the use of both hands to play video games, then he has the use of both hands to feed himself.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: blue">In fact, I think it was very nervy for him to expect you to make him something - what, do you eat, breath and sleep to make him comfortable? If my kid were that demanding at that hour after diddling all evening, I think I would have even been inclined to offer him a bowl of cereal and if he didn't want that, then he can wait till morning.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: blue">Mean? No way! My mother would have said, "Tough XXXX" and turned back to her book if we had asked her to fix us something to eat at 9:45PM!! But then again, we wouldn't have dared ask! Move on and let him stew.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 314370, member: 2211"] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=4][COLOR=blue]Uh, no. He had THREE options, if you think about it. Either go with you to dinner, stay home and make something for his dinner, or when he was done diddling around, make something for himself.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=4][COLOR=blue]He is 15. You had already eaten and the kitchen (in my house) is closed after dinner. If he has the use of both hands to play video games, then he has the use of both hands to feed himself.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=4][COLOR=blue]In fact, I think it was very nervy for him to expect you to make him something - what, do you eat, breath and sleep to make him comfortable? If my kid were that demanding at that hour after diddling all evening, I think I would have even been inclined to offer him a bowl of cereal and if he didn't want that, then he can wait till morning.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=4][COLOR=blue]Mean? No way! My mother would have said, "Tough XXXX" and turned back to her book if we had asked her to fix us something to eat at 9:45PM!! But then again, we wouldn't have dared ask! Move on and let him stew.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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