Monday Fluff

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Monday Fluff
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Mon, 11-22-2010 - 9:59am

1. Will you be shopping on Black Friday or Cyber Monday?

2. "5 months of bills...." as the song says. Do you have a budget for the holidays or do you have "5 months of bills..."?

3. What is one food that most people make for Thanksgiving that you do not like?

4. Do you dress up for Thanksgiving?

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Registered: 12-07-2003
Sat, 11-27-2010 - 1:33pm
Was there a point to this line of questioning?
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Registered: 04-22-2005
Sat, 11-27-2010 - 1:36pm

Didn't miss it, and it doesn't contradict my post.





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Registered: 12-07-2003
Sat, 11-27-2010 - 1:44pm
Yes, I think it is my responsibility to make sure my kids know how to bake before leaving home. I also think they need to learn how to sew on a button and hem a pair of pants. And how to mow the grass and how the plant flowers and vegetables.

I'll repeat Sild's question. Aren't there things that you think your kids need to know before they move out of the house?
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Registered: 01-08-2009
Sat, 11-27-2010 - 1:47pm
I was just thinking of this line of posting while I was putting away the last of the Thanksgiving things. When I cook and bake with my children, I am also passing down stories and foodways that are now at least six generations old. I tell them about how their great-grandmother used to love rutabagas, and in the meantime I am telling them stories about how she was born in Oklahoma before it was even a state and then how they left Oklahoma when their dad (my xhildren's great-great grandfather) ws killed in an oil rig explosion. I pull out a dish and have my son wash it because it is dusty, and I tell them that bowl was given to their great uncle after 25 years of service at a certain university. I am not just teaching cooking, I am passing down a heritage to my children.
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Registered: 02-24-2009
Sat, 11-27-2010 - 1:47pm

That is certainly true, but what baffles me is the idea that learning these things before leaving home is somehow detrimental or even cruel to the children. Surely it is nice to know how to take care of yourself. I am trying to understand why anyone would consider this a bad thing. Can you learn "on the job"? Sure. But why would it be bad not to have to do that?

Also, my reason for teaching dd some basics like that was not so much that I thought she would starve once on her own if I didn't. It was more to teach her that she did not need me or anyone else to take care of her. I think that is quite empowering for a kid, but obviously several posters here disagree.

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Sat, 11-27-2010 - 1:49pm
I wouldn't need a recipe for a cake if I was making it according to the directions on the back of the box.
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Registered: 02-24-2009
Sat, 11-27-2010 - 1:49pm

Yes, good point. This goes for many things that parents teach their kids, I think.

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Registered: 10-06-2010
Sat, 11-27-2010 - 2:04pm
I've known how to cook since I was about 12. Yet I still love to get new recipes. Shrug.

But then, I have a 50+ cookbook collection.

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Registered: 10-22-2009
Sat, 11-27-2010 - 2:05pm
Love my fiestaware...
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Registered: 08-22-2009
Sat, 11-27-2010 - 2:07pm

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