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While growing up, if I didn't like what was served at dinner, my mother told me that I wasn't really hungry.
Lots of kids I knew growing up had parents who said that. I consider myself pretty lucky. My parents insisted that I at least try any food offered. If I truly disliked it, they would not make me eat it. In short, they treated me like a person, with likes and dislikes as real as their own. End result? I am a pretty adventurous eater, free from deep-rooted aversions to things I was forced to choke down as a kid. I know plenty of people who refuse to even take a bite of something they were made to eat, against their will, as children.
I mean no disrespect to your mother, but I'm glad mine took the approach she did.
If you plan on living here in America with the rest of us, you better be prepared to pitch in on the maintenance and upkeep of the nation and it's people. It's the way our system was set up. We tend to not do so well with isolated pariahs. We call them lone wolves and usually end up hunting them down. And we don't like having a large percentage of our population starving to death in the streets. Bad Press. So step up to the plate, pitch in or get out of the way.
Sort of hilarious how bad-ass and tough liberals are when it comes to demanding money from others like "say no, I dare you, we'll just come and beat it out of your dead corpse." If only they were that determined about, you know, working, right?
Sort of hilarious how bad-ass and tough liberals are when it comes to demanding money from others like "say no, I dare you, we'll just come and beat it out of your dead corpse." If only they were that determined about, you know, working, right?
It's funny how libs want secession and to buy guns all of a sudden. They're mad.
I do know that kids have always thrown out food they disliked in a school cafeteria. Things I threw in the trash included soggy pizza, overcooked vegetables, and greasy pigs-in-a-blanket that were distinctly on the greenish side. I have to wonder if the problem isn't what it always has been: poorly prepared food that sits too long on a steam table to be even remotely fresh-tasting.
Portions are another issue. If you make all the meals to meet the needs of athletes, the less active kids get more calories than they need or should have, but if you tailor them to smaller kids, the athletes go hungry. Honestly, I don't remember seeing the athletes at my school getting extra portions unless they paid for a second lunch, so I'm not sure this is anything new.
I guess the thing I find really striking is that the people who are complaining most loudly about SNAP benefits being spent on junk are, in many cases, the very same ones who think it's a lousy idea to try to make school lunches (which are funded, in part, by tax dollars) a little healthier. It's inconsistent, to say the least.
Kids are being made to take fruit and veggies they do not want to eat. They have to put it on the tray. A lot goes straight in the trash. I have a suspicion that for some children apple slices with peanut butter to dip them in might go over better than a whole apple. Oranges already peeled and separated into quarters might be eaten when a whole orange isn't. Raw veggies with a dip could be better than canned or overcooked ones. Heck, just ask kids what they want to eat. If it's spaghetti, add veggies to the sauce.
Some solutions are offered at the link, including having recess before lunch, allowing more time for lunch, and allowing food to be saved for a later snack.
Kids are being made to take fruit and veggies they do not want to eat. They have to put it on the tray. A lot goes straight in the trash. I have a suspicion that for some children apple slices with peanut butter to dip them in might go over better than a whole apple. Oranges already peeled and separated into quarters might be eaten when a whole orange isn't. Raw veggies with a dip could be better than canned or overcooked ones. Heck, just ask kids what they want to eat. If it's spaghetti, add veggies to the sauce.
Some solutions are offered at the link, including having recess before lunch, allowing more time for lunch, and allowing food to be saved for a later snack.
The athletes should be able to request larger portions or go back for seconds.
I still do not think anyone quibbles with the concept of a more nutritious school lunch. It's the implementation that has not worked well.
I agree with all of these suggestions, and am glad you posted them. It's a lot more constructive than just mindlessly attacking the entire concept. (Yes, some do.)
Sort of hilarious how bad-ass and tough liberals are when it comes to demanding money from others like "say no, I dare you, we'll just come and beat it out of your dead corpse."
It must be so hard for you to have to listen to those liberal voices inside your head all day. Was it drugs that caused these audible hallucinations?
I cast no aspersions on the CCC, which was wonderful (and voluntary). I would like to see where you find the expression "work makes freedom" anywhere on the CCC link.
If you were referring to the details of how the program worked, you should have said so.
I did. Not my fault you lack accurate knowledge of U.S. history. /shrug
I did. Not my fault you lack accurate knowledge of U.S. history. /shrug
Do you not see why I thought you were arguing about that slogan and where it was found? You talked about the characteristics of the CCC, without naming them specifically, another poster chimed in with that German quote, your reply appeared to me to deny the history of said quote, and so it went...
I think this has been a misunderstanding, and I'm willing to claim a large portion of it, so shall we just call it a truce now?
All of Trump's income is from retirement savings accounts? Thats absurd!
I didn't say that. I said he has unrealized gains. You asked what that is, and I explained by using a 401K as an example.
See what I mean about our country's education system destroying most people's ability to think over the past 50 years via disdaining academic excellence in favor of the pursuit of the SJW "equal outcomes" goal? /SMH
Lots of kids I knew growing up had parents who said that. I consider myself pretty lucky. My parents insisted that I at least try any food offered. If I truly disliked it, they would not make me eat it. In short, they treated me like a person, with likes and dislikes as real as their own. End result? I am a pretty adventurous eater, free from deep-rooted aversions to things I was forced to choke down as a kid. I know plenty of people who refuse to even take a bite of something they were made to eat, against their will, as children.
I mean no disrespect to your mother, but I'm glad mine took the approach she did.
Mine would force the food down my throat trying to make me eat it. I'd gag on it. I'd sometimes be beat with a board, flyswatter, or belt if I didn't eat whatever food was in front of me.
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