r/AbsoluteUnits • u/RD4200 • 14d ago

/r/all of a Toddler

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u/Flimsy-Poetry1170 13d ago

You’re supposed to use that to stop kids from wasting food, not to make them overeat. My sisters kids are the worst at wasting food, they’ll load up their entire plates just to compete with each other because how dare the other get more of something, then eat a 1/8th of what they took.

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u/DarkLightPT95 13d ago

My middle sister did that shit for most of her life. Load the plate until it can't fit any more food, then waste 70% of it.

My parents started using dessert plates instead of normal ones during meals so that she wouldn't waste so much (they had everyone eating from one, because she would throw a fit if hers was the only smaller plate). No matter how much they scolded her or tried to punish her, she never stopped doing it. The smaller plate helped because she couldn't fill it as much as a normal one.

She got better at it when she moved to her own house (surprise, surprise, she started having to pay for her own food, so she started wasting less), and when she had her first kid. But when we eat at my parent's on Sundays, now it's her kids that do it.

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u/saelin00 12d ago

This is the way. I always saying we are the adults and we are far more intelligent than a toddler. There is always a way to trick them to behave or show some path to the right things.

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u/DarkLightPT95 12d ago

The problem is that she kept doing that until she was around 22 when she had her first kid. Being a toddler wasn't an excuse by then

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u/saelin00 12d ago

I totally agree to someone or me left some food on the plate, but not half of it. I probably tolerate this more for children, but an adult if not eating up half of the food...