Countrymouse Posted November 2018
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Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
Thank you. You have given me & many others much good & sensible advice.
You see the truth & speak it. XX
I've discovered another glitch - I tried scrolling older posts on my news feed and it will not load anything older than May 12, it just keeps reloading that page when I hit the see more button at the bottom of the feed 🤔
My Privacy settings were all undone.
People who refuse to limit the length of their posts and are new to the forum should not take it personally if I cannot take on their sorrows. Others can help them. imo.
I reset my privacy settings, all is well.
Daughter, in high school, psychology course about children and families, project about parenting styles. Online (night school) presentation.
One girl went on and on and on and on and on about how appreciative she is of her mother, who, at 20, single, gave up her friends, gave up her education, gave up her career aspirations, gave up all her hopes and dreams to have her.
The teacher enthusiastically applauded their closeness, open and honest relationship. While my head filled with alarm bells.
My daughter asked me not to contact the teacher, as there’s only one class left. I’ll keep my worms sealed in their can.
I hope this girl finds a supportive group if she finds herself struggling to balance her own life and her mother’s.
Ana - I'm with you and Way. Definitely inappropriate. I had my kids, still kept up with my education and friends, and work, hopes and dreams. What is she going to expect from that child in the future? Scares me.
That mother that gave up everything at 20 years old will be extracting promises from that girl .
When my nephews were young, they didn't care for plain milk very much. So I added chocolate and strawberry quik to their milk so they would drink it all. They were active and thin kids so I didn't need to worry about an extra 100-150 calories a day. I just wanted the calcium and other nutrients in the milk in their growing bodies. They're in their mid-40s now, drink plain old milk by the glassfulls (especially when offered with dark chocolate cake or fresh cookies) and do not have a weight problem. Similar path taken with the grand-nephews and though they are just in high school they are fit with no weight problems. I use unsweetened almond milk for my cereal and for cooking almost daily pudding offerings for the grands and FSs because it has more calcium (very important for boys will less than normal bone density) and fewer calories. I do have a long standing weight problem (unusual for my family) which I track to developing asthma and taking multiple medications with weight gain as a side effect and some yummy expense account meals. In the last couple of years I've made an effort to reduce and I've lost 50+ pounds, never sacrificing my love affair with "real" milk.
The Obama era federal pushes to reduce fat and calories in school lunches led to the boys wanting packed lunches every day; very thankful the guidelines were loosened. Guess I will be pushing harder to have the county school system provide lunches at no cost and get out from under the federal interference.
Vent over.
That mother did her daughter no favors giving up everything for her. I agree, she will eventually throw that back into the daughters face.
yeah some kids won’t drink it without flavor .
And I just checked my milk . It doesn’t say ADDED sugar . It says 12 grams , but I thought that it was natural since it does not say added. Is there no sugar naturally in milk ?
The other message was , you have to give up everything ( be prepared to give up your dreams ) to be a (single) Mom. And the teacher applauded that .
Lowfat or nofat is really not good for kids. They need the fat that is in whole milk. I never had to add flavoring to milk for my girls, they loved milk just the way it was.
I have been in a school cafeteria, maybe 35 yrs ag, and have seen the waste. Apples thrown in the trash and full cartons of milk. Why, because the cafeteria ladies are mandated to give it to the children even if they say they don't want it. I have read that schools now are trying to stop that waste by allowing the kids to put what they don't want on trays that have been set out. And that kids who want an xtra milk or apple can have them, even take them home for later.
My 1% milk at home has 110 calories per serving. I’ll have to compare them when I go shopping. It’s interesting . It’s also interesting since DH has diabetes . I
don’t like whole milk . Too thick . I prefer skim but we compromise . Thanks .
I've recently learned that most african and asian people are lactose intolerant because they lack a gene that allows northern europeans to digest milk past infancy - I think perhaps the controversies around milk may be attributable to north america becoming more racially diverse.
vitamin A, vitamin D. So I guess no added sugar .