Confessions of one sahm

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Confessions of one sahm
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Fri, 04-03-2009 - 1:58pm

I've been thinking about this *debate* lately, and I think that many of my

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Sat, 07-04-2009 - 7:46am

sometimes that's just common courtesy.


when my kids go over friends' homes,they aren't taught that it's OK to just help themselves to what's ever there.

 

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Sat, 07-04-2009 - 7:55am

Y'know, they're not mutually exclusive things. You can have a hard or easy life, whether acknowledged or not. And acknowledging it, or not, doesn't change whether it's easy or not.

the sheltered thing? Well, it's nice when you think you're defending someone but other than that? It was a non sequitor.

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Sat, 07-04-2009 - 7:59am

could you provide a link to the post before this one, obviously, that discussed kids coming into other people's homes and helping themselves, rather than being invited to stay for a meal (which was the topic of discussion).

thanks.

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Sat, 07-04-2009 - 8:09am
No, I would not like that either. In this case, however, the food was offered to them, repeatedly. I have never come across kids who helped themselves to the contents of other people's fridges. That would indeed be very rude.
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Sat, 07-04-2009 - 8:39am
I would imagine that kind of behavior is a LOT more common in Texas than in Greece. Regardless of the SES.

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Sat, 07-04-2009 - 9:23am
When you have neighborhood kids who will walk in your home, open your freezer, turn on your oven and bake a pizza, all without permission,
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Sat, 07-04-2009 - 9:43am

That's what happened when I was growing up too. We always ate dinner together, until I started having lots of after school activities. Then my mom would usually save a plate for me.

We almost always eat dinner together, but there are occasionally times when it doesn't work out. As long as we're eating together most of the time, I can't see a problem with it.

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Sat, 07-04-2009 - 10:14am
Perhaps, although I never came across any kids who did this in NY either. The non-eating kids were also in NY.
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Sat, 07-04-2009 - 11:02am

Our family usually eats dinner together, but we also do all of those things that you mention (the reading aloud has changed over time b/c of the number and ages of our children, lol).

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Sat, 07-04-2009 - 11:12am
I have never come across kids who helped themselves to the contents of other people's fridges. That would indeed be very rude.



My 7yo did that, once, about a year ago.

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