"You can just"

[firecat]

About providing food for your family when you don't have a lot of money, and the thoughtless advice that people sometimes give if they don't know much about a difficult problem you have, especially if they give the advice using the adverb "just" (with the "it's so simple" connotation).

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/08/31/you-can-just/

Comments

[jenk]

Unfortunately or fortunately depending on one's POV, we always had an "Eat what's served or starve" policy. Not as harsh as it sounds. If I KNOW a kid doesn't like something, it shows up less often in the rotation than foods I know they DO like.

I don't have a quibble with that, especially if it's combined with variety. I think a lot of whining parents experience with sudden, major menu changes is the kids reacting normally to change. A parent might have similar issues trying to turn their kids into vegetarians or moving to a Kosher diet. And if you combine it with complaining that the food's not expensive enough (as one friend's now-ex-husband would) well then what DO you expect? *rolls eyes*