I'm determined to get to the end of that thread. I'm almost on page 4.
I think the help comment was meant to be a joke, although a bad one. Also, if her son is such a rule follower, why doesn't she say no and explain those are the family rules?
Why are these women getting into 9 page arguments OVER FRUIT SNACKS.
I ate fruit snacks a lot as a kid as well as fruit roll-ups and fruit by the foot and all those other "horrible" things and I kept all my teeth, never had a cavity and lived. I am now 30 and have yet to see a side effect to the eating of fruit snacks as a kid. Hell, I still eat fruit snacks. And if I had a kid you can bet your ass they would be allowed to eat fruit snacks as well. FFS it is fruit snacks, not cocaine.
I'm not reading all that - I'm all stocked up on crazy IRL today :-p
What I found interesting is that when I skipped to page 7 I saw that banned users still had their posts in the thread. Are the TOS or rules different on TB?
We never had fruit snacks, fruit roll ups, gushers, or any sticky sugar snacks in our house. I wasn't forbidden, we just didn't have them at our house. My mom just wouldn't buy it. Grocery store trips went like this:
Me: PLEASE!!!! I need these.
Mom: No.
Me: You don't understand! Please, Mom!
Mom: No.
Me: Everyone else at lunch has them though!!
Mom: No.
I will say I got mighty skilled at lunch room negotiating. By the end of elementary school, I could get a kid to trade me their fruit by the foot for a bag of peanuts!!
I ate fruit snacks a lot as a kid as well as fruit roll-ups and fruit by the foot and all those other "horrible" things and I kept all my teeth, never had a cavity and lived. I am now 30 and have yet to see a side effect to the eating of fruit snacks as a kid. Hell, I still eat fruit snacks. And if I had a kid you can bet your ass they would be allowed to eat fruit snacks as well. FFS it is fruit snacks, not cocaine.
Whoa! If I'd read that shit when I was young, I'd never have had children.
I love the way that escelated from fruit snacks to implying that the kid will grow up to be a rapist because self righteous kale chips mom doesn't say no exactly the same way the other moms do. Brilliant.
Women like this are why I couldn't ever be in the PTA. I tried. I was banned. I did not care.
I'm not reading all that - I'm all stocked up on crazy IRL today :-p
What I found interesting is that when I skipped to page 7 I saw that banned users still had their posts in the thread. Are the TOS or rules different on TB?
And POOF! They are gone...guess someone was paying attention to this thread or one of the main characters asked for account to be deleted since she was banned. Sorry if I ruined your reading enjoyment.
I ate fruit snacks a lot as a kid as well as fruit roll-ups and fruit by the foot and all those other "horrible" things and I kept all my teeth, never had a cavity and lived. I am now 30 and have yet to see a side effect to the eating of fruit snacks as a kid. Hell, I still eat fruit snacks. And if I had a kid you can bet your ass they would be allowed to eat fruit snacks as well. FFS it is fruit snacks, not cocaine.
I laughed so hard at this and now all my co-workers are looking at me like I'm insane!
The Bump is a scary place. They are way too intense for me, I just can't get that worked up over fruit snacks or really any other food.
Whoa! If I'd read that shit when I was young, I'd never have had children.
I love the way that escelated from fruit snacks to implying that the kid will grow up to be a rapist because self righteous kale chips mom doesn't say no exactly the same way the other moms do. Brilliant.
Women like this are why I couldn't ever be in the PTA. I tried. I was banned. I did not care.
Ohhhhh man, don't even get moms started on what they feed their kids. I know better than to get into that argument.
I don't think I could ever post on a parenting forum. That's just asking for trouble. I will absolutely lurk, though.
I don't even have kids and I regularly lurk on mommy forums. People who think TK is rough has never stumbled into a mommy board. Those women make us look like we're Wedding Bee.
On a side note, my sister is pregnant right now and I see all the signs of a super high-maintenance, holier than thou mom in her. I am terrified.
She said the kid will not be allowed to have contact with anything that is plastic, made of manufactured fabric, or contains chemical components. I was like, "so basically the kid will not have toys, be able to wear clothes or diapers, and you will not be able to bath him/her in your acrylic bathtub... Sounds awesome."
Someone got on a tangent about lunchables. Did anyone else have those growing up? They were tasty.
H has to go to the dentist after work and there is a very real possibility that I will be having a pizza lunchable (or 2) for dinner.
I used to beg my Mom for Lunchables and junk snack food. I didn't get them until I started working and making lunches/grocery runs for myself. By that time our school had a food truck so I didn't want lunchables anyways. I think my Mom bought maaaybbeee 4 the whole time we were in school, and the only reason she did was because she was exhausted from chemo and didn't feel like making anything. We heard "no" a lot in regards to food, and we didn't even know what white bread was until 5th grade when my best friend's family introduced us to King's Hawaiian rolls.
Everyone knows that people who ate fruit snacks turned out to be murderers. CNN surveyed everyone on death row and every last one of em had fruit snacks as a kid.
I was a fruit roll up kid. Still contemplating a few petty crimes before I build up to the grand finale but I know it's comin'.
Lunchables and gooey fruity things were no-nos in my house growing up. Probably for a reason, honestly. A 4 year old shouldn't be eating that kind of junk all the time.
But growing up with no discipline isn't the answer either. We would (on VERY RARE occasions) have that kind of stuff in my house- it was a treat. We didn't have it because my parents didn't want us to, it was that simple. I was taught to respect their decisions on stuff like this, so I did.
Who knows what I will allow my kids to have, but it certainly isn't my place to judge other parents. To each their own.
I go to the Bump once and now my avatar is a pregnant lady? No bueno, just no bueno.
Consequences of curiosity I guess.
Gah I was lurking around on The Nest one day (Trouble in Paradise is a TRIP) and suddenly I got a notification of "Welcome, you are now a member!" I freaked out.
Everyone knows that people who ate fruit snacks turned out to be murderers. CNN surveyed everyone on death row and every last one of em had fruit snacks as a kid.
I was a fruit roll up kid. Still contemplating a few petty crimes before I build up to the grand finale but I know it's comin'.
Also, wasn't there an article recently about the relation of the number of fruit snacks you ate as a kid to how successful your marriage would be? ;-)
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I think the help comment was meant to be a joke, although a bad one. Also, if her son is such a rule follower, why doesn't she say no and explain those are the family rules?
Why are these women getting into 9 page arguments OVER FRUIT SNACKS.
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Exactly. It's scary.
And POOF! They are gone...guess someone was paying attention to this thread or one of the main characters asked for account to be deleted since she was banned. Sorry if I ruined your reading enjoyment.
I don't even have kids and I regularly lurk on mommy forums. People who think TK is rough has never stumbled into a mommy board. Those women make us look like we're Wedding Bee.
Someone got on a tangent about lunchables. Did anyone else have those growing up? They were tasty.
H has to go to the dentist after work and there is a very real possibility that I will be having a pizza lunchable (or 2) for dinner.
I had a lunchable the other day at work. No shame.
But growing up with no discipline isn't the answer either. We would (on VERY RARE occasions) have that kind of stuff in my house- it was a treat. We didn't have it because my parents didn't want us to, it was that simple. I was taught to respect their decisions on stuff like this, so I did.
Who knows what I will allow my kids to have, but it certainly isn't my place to judge other parents. To each their own.
Consequences of curiosity I guess.
--William Shakespeare (Sonnet 25)