Quiz question

[jgillott]

No but getting close!!

Kitchen or Dining room table. Nobody sits at the table and has dinner as a family anymore, except for holidays etc.

 

[fkovalski]

I second "jgillott's" answer.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Kitchen or Dining room table. Nobody sits at the table and has dinner as a family anymore, except for holidays etc.

I second "jgillott's" answer.

Can you believe that??? We use to sit at the table EVERYDAY at least for dinner, and talk to the kids about their day and what was going on in their lives. When I heard the question I can see it being true kids are running wild and have no guidance or direction in their life, or just some input that they are loved by parents. Our society is GOING DOWN THE TOILETBOWL AND NOBODY CARE'S HOW SAD IS THAT?

 

[jgillott]

Woo. Hoo. That's the first time I've been right since 2008. Oo.



We always had dinner at the table growing up. I guess that I am in the minority now because we still do. Used to be that we would also go to my grandparents every Sunday for lunch and the entire family would be there.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Woo. Hoo. That's the first time I've been right since 2008. Oo.







We always had dinner at the table growing up. I guess that I am in the minority now because we still do. Used to be that we would also go to my grandparents every Sunday for lunch and the entire family would be there.

We also have Sunday Brunch or Lunch, and enjoy the day with the family when possible due to weather sometimes its not practical but they come over for dinner, I may not have been to EVERYONE of the dinners due to work or out of town, but the wife in my absence always had a sit down meal at dinner, and most times at breakfast getting the kids off to school, AT THE TABLE!!!!

 

[BIGNASTY]

What's really sad the same channel had another quiz that gave stat's on Girls over the age of 15 being able to cook an entire dinner meal without help from Mom. THAT WAS REALLY SAD. They had the breakdown on the micro use stove use cooktop use oven use and most didn't know CRAP unless it was microwaved, and even then most were in trouble

 

[jgillott]

Nothing surprises me anymore in this country.

 

[AMink]

Guilty as charged. Wife and I get home at different times, the kids have (had) band, choir, gymnastics, and now college. We sat at the table every night growing up. Mom taught school, came home and cooked, cleaned up, and then did the school stuff. Superwoman!

 

[SierraRam]

Its the end of the world as we know it! Every generation says the same thing... .....

 

[Wayne M.]

That's a good stat and I believe it.
Of all my "family friend" peers, I think were the only ones who have a kitchen AND dining room table. Either one gets used every night. The kitchen table is used as homework central with my two kids, and since I get home when they do, I force the issue before anything else happens that day (unless it's Thursday and there's swimming and dance). I'm like a blackjack dealer in Vegas dealing with them two, AND I THANK GOD that I'm able to have a 0600-1430 work shift, and be able to do this. At around 1630 that table clears off and dinner plans are made- either Mommy brings something (once a week) or I/ She will make something. We disperse @ approx 1830, by then I'm shot.
Yes, were a tight family unit, and definitely in the minority. If I had bankers hours like my wife, this wouldn't be possible.

 

[ABennin]

I am one of them too. My excuse is I am single and have no one to sit around the table with. So I end up eating supper in my arm chair. When I was a kid we usually ate at the table together.

 

[Blu-meanie]

I'm just happy it wasn't deodorant!

 

[BIGNASTY]

There are exceptions to EVERY rule, like Wayne we sometimes didn't sit at the table with some of the activities that the kids were involved in, and If I was single I would be in front of the TV probably also. And ITS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD as someone said, but its the end of a way of life that has served us as a people WELL for many many years, Did we grow up wrong? It would be interesting to see just how many John Wayne Gacy's, Ted Bundy's, Richard Ramirez types had a SO CALLED NORMAL life growing up, or were they left alone without family contact from just something as simple as having dinner as a family. Now its turn on the TV games for the kids and let them get fat from lack of exercise because Mom and Dad don't want to deal with them for what ever reason. Or medicate the little Butt head because they are a little wound up and the doctor prescribes some Pharmaceutical baby sitter, again so mom and dad don't have to deal with it. Don't know about you but I cant remember hearing of to very many of the kids I grew up with having one of the many abbreviations that doctors give kids these days. So what gives? Food, environment, culture. It is pretty sad.

 

[Wingate]

wow. . im feeling pretty good about how ive raised my kids then. We always made a point to have supper every night AT the table. No games, toys, phones, etc. . Now that my kids are grown and have families of their own, Im proud to say that tradition has continued.

 

[Axtell3]

We use our table daily. Our youngest has one of those abbreviations; p. d. d. n. o. s. which translates to: she's behind, has some weird behaviors, and we don't know why. We have done lots of work with her, and she's doing pretty well, but will probably never be a doctor. She is funny as all get out, LOVES all animals, and will be a productive member of society. I'd go with the theory that a lot of the diagnosis' are due to a lack of parenting, but not in all (my wife and my) cases.

 

[BIGNASTY]

We use our table daily. Our youngest has one of those abbreviations; p. d. d. n. o. s. which translates to: she's behind, has some weird behaviors, and we don't know why. We have done lots of work with her, and she's doing pretty well, but will probably never be a doctor. She is funny as all get out, LOVES all animals, and will be a productive member of society. I'd go with the theory that a lot of the diagnosis' are due to a lack of parenting, but not in all (my wife and my) cases.

Mr. Axtell3

This is BIG'S wife Penny, Gail is away in the field and wont be back for a time. Im lost without him and started to answer his mail and came across this post. Im sure that Gail didn't want to say that all!! of the problems are due to parents lack of concern. He and I know this first hand because our son was diagnosed with ADD at an early age and like most parents the doctors didn't know what they were talking about. It became apparent that they did know but Gail wouldn't except the treatment that they prescribed for our son. With many hours of working with him he did well in school and went on to USC, and eventually became a Fireman/Paramedic. When he moved his family to Montana to be with us, he went to work in a local hospital in the nuclear radiology department. Gail always made sure of keeping the Doctor that told us the same thing that you posted about your daughter not becoming a doctor notified of when Nathan Got his Degree from USC also of his becoming a Fireman/Paramedic (not quite a doctor but close enough is what Gail told him) and when he worked in the nuclear radiology department Gail wrote him a letter that he's gaining on that doctors job!!!



I know that I don't have to tell you this but Please!! never give up, the affected person has so much untapped potential. It just takes someone with the dedication to find a way to bring it out. In our sons case it was with diet, exercise and mental repetition, Gail God Bless him spent many, many hours on the floor in our living room going over and over math questions and reading anything!!!! that they could get their hands on that our son found interesting.



Gail finds our son sometimes daydreaming and reminds him to focus!!! Nathan tells him I was just thinking. Gail's reply is, I do that every morning out at my ponder-in spot not a thing wrong, with a good think now and again. Wished Id thought of that sooner my own damn self.



Take Care to All

God Bless



Penny

 

[Axtell3]

Penny, you are a fine Lady.

 

[Wayne M.]

We use our table daily. Our youngest has one of those abbreviations; p. d. d. n. o. s. which translates to: she's behind, has some weird behaviors, and we don't know why. We have done lots of work with her, and she's doing pretty well, but will probably never be a doctor. She is funny as all get out, LOVES all animals, and will be a productive member of society. I'd go with the theory that a lot of the diagnosis' are due to a lack of parenting, but not in all (my wife and my) cases.

I don't know your Daughters age, but don't give up! And don't let the school get you to stop fighting. And on a different issue, my little girls school hasn't issued math textbooks YET. The entire 5th grade is depending on photocopies. The principal is hiding in her office. Don't worry, I'll put the ram in 4lo in the lo hole and drive it right in there if I have to!

Parenting is what you make it.

 

[Axtell3]

We won't stop fighting, and like you our school is mired in common core crap. Grace is a 5th grader also, her Mom, my wife is a parent advocate (basically helps parents when they meet with the schools over their particular cases) so we have the ins and outs pretty well covered. They sure stuck it to us here in NY. I guess the whole country will be in the same boat soon. We are trying to work locally against the CC, but I'm afraid our ripple will not become the tsunami needed to wake up NYC and Albany.

 

[Sticks]

Growing up at home we also had all meals at the table, bedtime at 8:00p on school nights, 9:00 on weekends until I was a Softmore and allowed to go hang with my friends or was at work. Contrariwise during the summer break, kids were kicked out of the house until the street lights came on, not parked in front of the "Babysitter" (TV/Video game).

Even after I graduated you never saw those under 16 out anywhere after 9:00p. Now days it's common place to see 10 and under at restaurants and nighttime recreation business 'till last call (running feral I might add).

I remember a stretch during the mid '90s that apartments and condos were being built without a kitchen. These were located in "Retail/Business/Residential" developments or sub communities where there were a plethora of restaurants nearby, and studies showed that a combination of persons living on their own and simple couples, ate out rather than cooked, combined with the cost of cooking a meal for 1 or 2 at that time was more expensive than going out.

Acronym affected children ~ I'd wager a large portion of them are misdiagnosed or Pharmocom pushes the the theory on doctors to sell more prescriptions. Today I would probably be given the same diagnosis, but when I was in school the determination was, I was not being challenged enough (was put in the "special needs" group for a week in 4th grade), then they bumped me up a notch in the grade level teachings on a few subjects. This was back when Teachers paid attention to the students and made their own diagnosis by comparing notes and applied the proper treatment. If a student was outside the curve for the grade or class they were in, Teachers communicated with one another about it.

I became aware of this when in the 7th grade, while the rest of my class was doing that grade level math, they bumped me up into the high school Algebra class, then in 8th grade into Geometry with all the Juniors and Seniors (nose dived that one - hated "Postulates and Theorems"). Regrettably I figured out the game and squeaked by the rest of High School instead of sucking up all the education I could in the subjects that interested me, and vowed I would not be going to College. My senior year I needed one more math credit to graduate and took "Basic Math" (literally slept through it), and none of the admin figured out that I was 3 years above that because they didn't look at my transcripts from my last school. 12 years in school was enough for me. Blue collar work was my track.

When did the term "Professional" and the respect that came with it, become used to describe the shininess of ones shoes and the diplomas hanging on their office wall?