Rainbow parenting styles: kids vs. parents

[Kileoli]

2 hours ago, Zombie said:

first thing kids learn - how to lie

Nope, they can really do it. Hours of threatening and exercise have been used to achieve this goal.

Every morning 

Kid1: can I have my phone?

Me: nope, make your bed first 

Later

Kid 1: can I have my phone?

Me: ok but only 10 minutes 

10 minutes later

Me: get ready for school 

Kid1: oh ...and I'm very hungry 

Me: what do you want to eat sweetie?

Kid1: pan cakes

Me: good idea, do it yourself. I gotta get back to work. The eggs are in the fridge, where they always are 

Kid1: but I can't make pancakes, I can make crepes. 

Me: then make crepes, and get ready in 20 minutes.

Kid 1 makes crepes because that's the recipe could find.

15 minutes later,

Me: brush your teeth and just go. You have 10 minutes to get to school  but I have a meeting so don't disturb me.

Kid1: but....I haven't eaten yet

.....

And after several weeks of complaints from the teacher ( being ignored by the parents) and the kid going hungry to school she finally figured out playing on the phone early in the morning is not good and if she doesn't make her bread and breakfast, nobody else does it.

I must confess, Kid 2 is work in progress but kid 2 is younger.

So nope, it's not lying. It's just a matter of who's more stubborn and who gives up first.

[Jeff Burton]

1 hour ago, Davide said:

Kids nowadays learn English just by existing on the internet.

You're right, it's different, crepes are better.

Don't get me started.

[Kileoli]

1 hour ago, Davide said:

Kids nowadays learn English just by existing on the interne

Not from an early age. Here they watch everything in German so they don't see the need yet. But they have to learn it at some point.

 

And yep Crepes are better or I don't care as long as I don't make them. 😅

Edited April 19 by Kileoli

[Jeff Burton]

3 minutes ago, Kileoli said:

Not from an early age. Here they watch everything in German so they don't see the need yet. But they have to learn it at some point.

 

And yep Crepes are better or I don't care as long as I don't make them. 😅

Don’t add fuel to that fire. 😂

[Davide]

3 minutes ago, Kileoli said:

Not from an early age. Here they watch everything in German so they don't see the need yet. But they have to learn it at some point.

Sure, not at a young age. But, once they learn some English in school, the internet helps a lot, they learn faster because of it.

But movies and series help here in Portugal, because we don't dub them, unless they're animated because young kids can't read the subtitles. So hearing English and reading Portuguese helps. Even if they're not paying active attention to the spoke words, some stuff still seeps in passively.

[Kileoli]

4 minutes ago, Davide said:

Sure, not at a young age. But, once they learn some English in school, the internet helps a lot, they learn faster because of it.

But movies and series help here in Portugal, because we don't dub them, unless they're animated because young kids can't read the subtitles. So hearing English and reading Portuguese helps. Even if they're not paying active attention to the spoke words, some stuff still seeps in passively.

Then you guys are better. We dub everything, and I like the Netflix hete.They learn stuff at school but between us, I never realized it was in English except kid1 proudly states to say something in English.

[Davide]

Just now, Kileoli said:

Then you guys are better. We dub everything, and I like the Netflix hete.They learn stuff at school but between us, I never realized it was in English except kid1 proudly states to say something in English.

To be honest, it's probably only luck that landed us in this situation. There was a time when enough Portuguese adults couldn't read that would have justified dubbing. But the country wasn't in a good financial situation, so I think we stuck to subtitles because they're cheaper to make.

[Davide]

17 minutes ago, Jeff Burton said:

Don’t add fuel to that fire. 😂

Ok, ok, I'll lay off the crepes vs pancakes discourse and I'll go eat a pineapple pizza, or maybe a hot dog sandwich. 🫣

[Jeff Burton]

1 minute ago, Davide said:

Ok, ok, I'll lay off the crepes vs pancakes discourse and I'll go eat a pineapple pizza, or maybe a hot dog sandwich. 🫣

Oh I could totally go for a pineapple pizza especially if it’s got Canadian bacon on it.

[Jason Rimbaud]

1 minute ago, Davide said:

hot dog sandwich.

Hot Dogs are not sandwiches.  Prove me wrong!   

[Jason Rimbaud]

Just now, Jeff Burton said:

Canadian bacon

Canadian bacon isn't bacon. 

[Jason Rimbaud]

1 minute ago, Jeff Burton said:

a pineapple pizza

However, is a real pizza!  

[chris191070]

Just now, Jason Rimbaud said:

However, is a real pizza!  

Pineapple doesn't belong on a pizza.

[Jason Rimbaud]

Just now, chris191070 said:

Pineapple doesn't belong on a pizza.

We could argue if it belongs on a pizza or not, but that doesn't change that pineapple pizza is a real pizza.   Unlike Canadian Bacon isn't bacon, and Hots dogs are not sandwiches. 

[Jeff Burton]

5 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

Canadian bacon isn't bacon. 

I had a witty reply to this but I decided to just let it go lol

[Davide]

8 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

Hot Dogs are not sandwiches.  Prove me wrong!   

That and the pizza comment were bait for the sake of humour (although I do like pineapple on pizza). According to the cube rule, as seen on https://cuberule.com/, a hot dog is actually a taco because it's covered in three sides.

Edited April 19 by Davide

[chris191070]

2 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

We could argue if it belongs on a pizza or not, but that doesn't change that pineapple pizza is a real pizza.   Unlike Canadian Bacon isn't bacon, and Hots dogs are not sandwiches. 

 

If Canadian Bacon isn't bacon, what is it.

[Jeff Burton]

3 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

We could argue if it belongs on a pizza or not, but that doesn't change that pineapple pizza is a real pizza.   Unlike Canadian Bacon isn't bacon, and Hots dogs are not sandwiches. 

It came from a pig close enough.

[Jason Rimbaud]

1 minute ago, Davide said:

That and the pizza comment were bait for the sake of humour (although I do like pineapple on pizza). According to the cube rule, as seen on https://cuberule.com/, a hot dog is actually a taco because it's covered in three sides.

Sorry, I forgot you weren't a silly American. It's a huge argument that some call hot dog sandwiches while others say it is not, hot dogs are its own category.  So

[Jason Rimbaud]

3 minutes ago, chris191070 said:

 

If Canadian Bacon isn't bacon, what is it.

Bacon comes from the pork belly

Canadian Bacon comes from the pork loin. 

[Davide]

Just now, Jason Rimbaud said:

Sorry, I forgot you weren't a silly American. It's a huge argument that some call hot dog sandwiches while others say it is not, hot dogs are its own category.  So

I know about that argument. The joke was I was agreeing to lay off of the pancakes vs crepes debates, while casually igniting two more heated debates at the same time. I expected people to read it as a joke, not actually start those debates.

[Jeff Burton]

3 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

Bacon comes from the pork belly

Canadian Bacon comes from the pork loin. 

And both come from a pig. I’m going to start calling you bacon to prove a point lol

Edited April 19 by Jeff Burton

[Jeff Burton]

3 minutes ago, Jeff Burton said:

And both come from a pig. I’m going to start calling you bacon to prove a point lol

Actually I shouldn’t say things like that just because my back hurts. So I apologize. ❤️

[chris191070]

7 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

Bacon comes from the pork belly

Canadian Bacon comes from the pork loin. 

British bacon, or back bacon, is a popular, lean cut from the pork loin combined with a small strip of belly fat. It is traditionally wet-cured in brine or dry-cured with sea salt and sugar, often smoked over wood for flavor. Unlike American streaky bacon, it offers a meatier texture essential to a full English Breakfast.

[Davide]

I don't know how me joking mentioning pineapple pizza somehow resulted in subscribing to bacon facts, but I'm enjoying it.