Selfish inconsiderate kids
I am so frustrated with these selfish inconsiderate kids, step and bio. So sunday dh worked hard all day fixing our cars mostly. Ss 14 offered to cook dinner and i was so happy. he can actually cook (his dad is a chef.) So ss prepared a pot of pasta with chicken and peas and it was delicious. But everyone was still working and we were not ready to eat. So ss eats. And eats again. And again. By the time we were ready to have dinner it was almost gone! So then we ended having to prepare another meal after all. I dont know why this irritated me so much but it did. He is a growing boy and i dont care how much he eats but he couldve snacked on something else rather than devour everyones dinner. I thought it wa rude. Then of course i vent to dh about it because i dont know if its my position to be correcting ss. Dh im sure is tired of being in the middle and said i shouldve corrected the boy myself. This is of course just a drop in the water compared to the crap that goes on on a daily around here. Thanks for letting me vent ; )
I kinda feel bad for the kid.
I kinda feel bad for the kid. He offered to cook, got the go ahead to do so, then nobody came to the table when it was ready.
Unless there is more to the story, I think that is the bigger problem. I’d have been mad about that as an adult, and probably worse for a young teen.
Not seeing how the kid who
Not seeing how the kid who offered to cook dinner, then cooked dinner, and no one bothered to stop what they were doing for 15 minutes to eat the dinner is in the wrong for eating the dinner he made. Sounds like the inconsiderate ones are the folks who wanted the dinner but didn't bother to come eat the dinner and then are upset that the dinner is unavailable at their convenience.
Yes we are the inconsiderate
Yes we are the inconsiderate ones for sure. Smh... we weren't being inconsiderate and he knew it. I knew he was hungry and I was fine with him going ahead and eating without us. We were getting to a stopping point and we had to take advantage of the last bit of daylight that we had. So if that is the excuse that he could not wait a few more minutes for us to join him I guess that makes it fine for him to totally disregard us and ear an entire pound of pasta. Sure...
If someone offers to cook
If someone offers to cook dinner and does, then unless he was told to wait or do it at a specific time, the family should go to the table and eat when it's ready. If everyone is too busy to eat, then they can fend for themselves later. I wouldn't say anything to the skid.
The only thing I can tell the
The only thing I can tell the skid is to go ahead and be greedy and selfish and gluttonous and end up as big as his mother or his grandfather who ate himself to death. Not fat shaming i am slightly overweight myself but its not healthy.
I would apply the same rules
to anyone who cooks....for example I cook one meal and it is ready at X time. I put dinner away at X time. You are called to the table once and if you don't eat then seconds are offered and the rest is put away for lunches the next day. That rule applies no matter who cooks.
I agree with the others and feel bad for the kid. He made dinner and then no one came to eat. His work was treated as if it didn't matter so enjoyed the spoils of his labor. I would leave it be and be more mindful of stopping and eating next time.
No one treated him as if it didn't matter
Everyone else who was working hard which by the way yes he did offer to cook but he does absolutely no chores around here whatsoever so everyone was busting their ass and we were very happy that dinner would be ready soon and then before we could even come in and clean up to eat he had basically pigged out on the entire thing. So I ended up cleaning up his cooking mess and cooking another meal and cleaning that up
That would have been fine if
That would have been fine if he cooked and ate and then put the leftovers away the point is there were no leftovers
teenage boys
Is he a swimmer by any chance?
My son eats that much. But he doesn't know how to cook dinner! If SS actually cooked, why did no one come to eat? Sorry I'm not seeing the problem here. On the other hand I am sure there are many other annoying situations with your Skids...
I would be pissed if I was
I would be pissed if I was working and was told dinner would be ready and when I got in to eat, there was no food left.
But I also would be annoyed if I cooked dinner and no one came in to eat. So I am a little torn on this one. I can see both sides.