Parenting
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Back to "Parenting" for a minute - went camping with the boy on the weekend. He's got 70 days left of being a minor at this point, but it is always a risk as he's lazy as fuck and likes to quit on anything except a computer game... he only rage-quits those.
Anyway, he was fairly useful at setting up for the night but still has strength issues with getting his swag done. He's still got low muscle tone and finds lifting things hard, which I was hoping his night shifts at Coles had sorted out by now. Oh well.
The moment of achievement was the hike we undertook - from the campsite to a nearby waterfall, it was probably not unexpected it would involve a significant elevation change, given the campsite was on top of a mountain.
Precision not 100% as the Garmin watch was doing its best against a cliff face, but it paints the picture.
Anyway, despite needing a bunch of rest stops on the way back (half of which I was grateful for), he did it, didn't whinge too much, and thoroughly enjoyed his dinner of scrambled eggs and bacon. That was all despite doing most of the driving that day as well, racking up some hours on his L plates.
Maybe he's finally starting to get it.
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@canefan we are 100% team indomie Blue in our whare. Kids love em.
My Cambodian MIL calls msg Asian salt
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@paekakboyz said in Parenting:
@canefan we are 100% team indomie Blue in our whare. Kids love em.
My Cambodian MIL calls msg Asian salt
MSG rocks.
I have a long-standing plan to get a nice classy personal salt-shaker, to fill with MSG and carry around with me. My goddamn laziness and forgetfulness keeps thwarting me. -
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@paekakboyz said in Parenting:
@canefan we are 100% team indomie Blue in our whare. Kids love em.
My Cambodian MIL calls msg Asian salt
MSG rocks.
I have a long-standing plan to get a nice classy personal salt-shaker, to fill with MSG and carry around with me. My goddamn laziness and forgetfulness keeps thwarting me.It's totally worth the follow up thirst & headache.
WE don't cook with it in our house though. Generally use chicken powder for Chinese dishes. Which is much much better, apparently.
Mainly because it contains MSG.
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@mariner4life said in Parenting:
...I honestly don't know what to do next. How the fuck do you discipline kids who don't seem to give a fuck about anything?
Apparently you give them MSG.
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I used to love Sizzlers but now I can barely stomach them. They're on par with dog food for me.
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@no-quarter said in Parenting:
I used to love Sizzlers but now I can barely stomach them. They're on par with dog food for me.
They are still a guilty pleasure for me. Like Cherrios!!! (Especially in a pub in Wellington!!! @Smudge )
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@no-quarter said in Parenting:
I used to love Sizzlers but now I can barely stomach them. They're on par with dog food for me.
Another relic of the 80s and 90s best left there
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@no-quarter said in Parenting:
I used to love Sizzlers but now I can barely stomach them. They're on par with dog food for me.
They are still a guilty pleasure for me. Like Cherrios!!! (Especially in a pub in Wellington!!! @Smudge )
I'm with you on cheerios. I'll fight the kids off at parties to get a few before they've handled them all
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First couple of weeks of flatting at uni is a really great way of identifying whose mum did everything for them at home.
I think my flatmates first meal for us was like, rice, potatoes, tinned spaghetti and sizzlers. gross.
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@mariner4life I had a flattie once who pinned the top sheet to his duvet to help him make his bed. I swear he only had one set of sheets all year and I don't recall them being washed. First meal was not only horrible (spaghetti boll using tomato sauce not tomato paste) it was also meagre. A cardinal sin
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@mariner4life did they actually cook them? We knew of a flat where they were starting from scratch in terms of cooking knowledge. That flat produced a mince dish that was legendary in its awfulness. I think someone was sick while eating it, let alone what happened to the poor bastards afterwards.
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@paekakboyz said in Parenting:
@mariner4life did they actually cook them? We knew of a flat where they were starting from scratch in terms of cooking knowledge. That flat produced a mince dish that was legendary in its awfulness. I think someone was sick while eating it, let alone what happened to the poor bastards afterwards.
Reminds me of my first meal; mince with liberal quantities of bbq sauce. Rice added for colour.
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think my first meal was a large bowl of mussels (probably as cheap as Maggi noodles at the time). Steamed them open in pot, washed them down with lots of cheap beer. Then obviously put the empty shells in neighbours bin because as student you always did stupid things and didnt want to have to clean my own bin.
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@no-quarter said in Parenting:
I used to love Sizzlers but now I can barely stomach them. They're on par with dog food for me.
They are still a guilty pleasure for me. Like Cherrios!!! (Especially in a pub in Wellington!!! @Smudge )
Any pub that serves Cheerios by the pound deserves my returning patronage.
