Parenting. I'm doing it wrong.

[sallywalker]

My kid had pickles and ketchup for dinner.

Tell me I'm not the only one failing as a parent tonight.

[ginger]

I'm okay with this.

[pittsmcgee]

Sometimes you just have to. No judgement here.

[usuallylurking]

Jun 30, 2015 19:05:43 GMT -5 @cse1960 said:

this sounds like a delicious dinner. Beats m and ms and cheese puffs. lol

At least this is gluten free?

[dexteroni]

That sounds awesome. One of my favorite childhood memories is when my dad let us have ketchup sandwiches for dinner one night. I think it was also a summer night, come to think of it. We still talk about it to this day. You created a lifelong memory!

[kitty63]

Pickles come from cucumbers, ketchup from tomatoes, there is nothing wrong with that.

[sallywalker]

Jun 30, 2015 19:08:22 GMT -5 kitty63 said:

Pickles come from cucumbers, ketchup from tomatoes, there is nothing wrong with that.

Vegetables. She had vegetables for dinner!

[daisybuchannan]

Sometimes there's nothing more you can do than just let them eat what they'll eat. After 1,000,000 tantrums to have his sister's teething biscuits as a snack, sometimes Connor gets them. Oops!

[franklin]

Yeah, you got your kid to eat something, I call that a win! It's been a long day and DH is on tonight so DS and I are sharing cheese cubes, raspberries, and some cucumber feta dip - he has milk, I have wine.

[CurlyQ284]

I see veggies. You're alright.

Plain noodles and peas for my kid because that's his favorite. We wanted greek takeout and it's a toss up on whether he will eat it so we didn't want to waste the money getting him a kids meal.

[gibbinator]

My picky 3yo ate his spaghetti out of his bowl on the floor like a dog and my main thought was "hurray, he's eating!"

[isabel]

She dipped the pickles in ketchup?

[nsl]

One of mine is eating a corndog and the other is having microwave mac and cheese. Also bananas, because why not. Sometimes you do what you have to in order to survive the evening.

[MixedBerryJam]

Jun 30, 2015 19:09:25 GMT -5 daisybuchannan said:

Sometimes there's nothing more you can do than just let them eat what they'll eat. After 1,000,000 tantrums to have his sister's teething biscuits as a snack, sometimes Connor gets them. Oops!

My son beggedandbeggedandbeggedandbegged for Crisco once. After a thousand no's, I finally said okay, but you have to eat every bit that you take. Cured.

[ginger]

Hell, I *think* M had a donut for dinner with my mom and then strawberries at home because dinner was "too spicy".

As long as she has something in her belly I'm cool.

And there was also that time at 18 months I'd had enough and gave her the whole box of goldfish...she immediately poured them all out and made a rectangle before she would eat. ..stinker.

[daisybuchannan]

Jun 30, 2015 19:17:13 GMT -5 MixedBerryJam said:

Jun 30, 2015 19:09:25 GMT -5 daisybuchannan said:

Sometimes there's nothing more you can do than just let them eat what they'll eat. After 1,000,000 tantrums to have his sister's teething biscuits as a snack, sometimes Connor gets them. Oops!

My son beggedandbeggedandbeggedandbegged for Crisco once. After a thousand no's, I finally said okay, but you have to eat every bit that you take. Cured.

Normally I wouldn't care at all about the freaking teething biscuit, but they come in a box of 10 or something, Cam loves them, and I'm not just throwing goldfish at her like I am Connor! Lol, eat your goldfish kid and leave the organic biscuits to your sister!

[sallywalker]

Jun 30, 2015 19:13:34 GMT -5 isabel said:

She dipped the pickles in ketchup?

Yes. She dips EVERYTHING in ketchup. It's disgusting.

[isabel]

Jun 30, 2015 19:19:32 GMT -5 sallywalker said:

Jun 30, 2015 19:13:34 GMT -5 isabel said:

She dipped the pickles in ketchup?

Yes. She dips EVERYTHING in ketchup. It's disgusting.

lol this is worse than my little sister dipping her salmon in ketchup when we were kids. Please note, I am in no way judging what she ate, just how she ate it.

[Deleted]

Jun 30, 2015 19:13:34 GMT -5 isabel said:

She dipped the pickles in ketchup?

This sounds delicious.

[litebright]

My kids had Spaghettios for lunch. Right now I am a fan of any lunch I can get on table in less than 5 minutes.

[indianchica]

We didn't even bother giving our 4 yr old dinner bc she just complains the whole time and it is annoying as hell. The rest of us ate and she watched Sid the Science Kid. It was great honestly.

[SKP82]

That's not failing. That's surviving.

[SKP82]

Jun 30, 2015 19:29:55 GMT -5 @lazerus24 said:

Jun 30, 2015 19:13:34 GMT -5 isabel said:

She dipped the pickles in ketchup?

This sounds delicious.

Do you need to POAS?

/ducks

[gibbinator]

Jun 30, 2015 19:17:13 GMT -5 MixedBerryJam said:

Jun 30, 2015 19:09:25 GMT -5 daisybuchannan said:

Sometimes there's nothing more you can do than just let them eat what they'll eat. After 1,000,000 tantrums to have his sister's teething biscuits as a snack, sometimes Connor gets them. Oops!

My son beggedandbeggedandbeggedandbegged for Crisco once. After a thousand no's, I finally said okay, but you have to eat every bit that you take. Cured.

My mom used to let me eat little slices of shortening. I loved it. Lol. My ds1 loves little pieces of butter.

[cookies]

You're not alone. I served DS baked beans and plain rice for dinner and he was like wtffff. Whatever, I tried to give him the good stuff we were eating, but he wanted no part of that either.

Now his tummy is so, so hungry! So I caved and he's eating a pb&j in bed.

[bex1973]

No side eye here sometimes you just gotta. I agree - it's vegetables! Last night mine only ate cottage cheese.

[xtine22]

No judgement here my kid had cinnamon toast crunch. DH and I went out for snack after work and she had ketchup while were there.

[spellingbea]

Last night, DD ate two Kraft singles and half a dozen sweet pickle slices for dinner. I will also dump ketchup or salsa over anything she wants if it gets her to eat. My MIL brought over roast beef one night and I apologized for giving it the ketchup treatment. She was like, whatever works dude, lol.

[isabel]

Jun 30, 2015 19:29:55 GMT -5 @lazerus24 said:

Jun 30, 2015 19:13:34 GMT -5 isabel said:

She dipped the pickles in ketchup?

This sounds delicious.

[dowagercountess]

Rice, which she doused in lemon and lime juice. And half popped popcorn. And a mini ice cream cone.