1. Do you make your kids finish all the food on their plates?
No.
I think it confuses the whole, eat until you are full mentality.
However, I also don’t give enormous portions, and if you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding.
Or, no dinner, no dessert.
We have fruit for dessert on weeknights, anyway, but my feeling is, if you are too full for dinner, then you are too full for dessert.
I’ve never understood when parents let their kids have dessert after not eating their dinners.
But, that’s just me.
If it’s something that I’m trying that is new and I think people might not like it, they get a little portion.
You don’t, however, have to finish your seconds. If you’ve already cleared your plate once, you’re good with me.
2. Do you give an allowance?
No.
We ebb and flow with chore charts where the kids can earn money for doing chores.
However, we aren’t really good with keeping up with it.
I’m not a fan of giving kids money every week that they don’t work for, though, (because, seriously…I’ve never gotten money for doing nothing!) so there is no regular allowance.
They also are not of an age where they have any real monetary needs, so there hasn’t been a huge uproar about this.
Yet.
3. Do you actually park your car in the garage?
Yes. We do.
We’ve never had a two-car garage, and when we purchased this home, (with a two car garage), we were adamant that we would use it for the cars.
Our first house had a separate one-car garage that I did use for my little Honda Civic.
Our second house had an attached one-car garage that was filled with stuff from the move…for the entire three years we lived there.
Our third house had a half of a one-car garage that was full of our bikes and lawn equipment.
This house? Two-car, attached garage with OUR CARS in it! Yeah!
4. What is one food you will NEVER cook?
Seafood is the obvious choice, because of my allergy.
However, I’ll go the non-allergy route and say liver.
I get gaggy just thinking about it.
I know I’ve told this story before.
My Mom used to make it when my Dad was out of town and make me eat it with her.
I told her it was so gross it was going to make me puke.
She made me eat it anyway.
Then, I puked.
Never again.
5. Do you have anything exciting planned for the summer?
We have two different beach vacations planned.
Then, lots of hitting the pool with the monkeys, going for walks, to parks, small day trips.
It’s going to relaxing, fun, and awesome.
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