I doubt the microwave and cold food can be blamed. Entire nations eat cooked meals hours later after being cooked without even heating it up. Hungary makes a great example of that.
And indeed if you ask for a hot meal they put it in the microwave, french fries included.
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My mother by the way said the same and she forced me, same like my grandmother, to finish my plate and they served day after day and not heated. The grease and food became hard and mould was included.
Strangely enough on Sundays no dessert if you do not finish your plate didn't count and if I disliked something most it were those Sunday desserts! 🤢🤢
They still make me gag. I could simply not swallow that it hurt my throat besides of the smell.
Children have a very good reason why they refuse to eat.
Chemicals in the food, the smell, pieces of something extra, knowing by instinct they are allergic and if it comes to cooking in certain pans they can be life dangerous,cause cancer and als microwave heated food van put ones health in danger.
I suppose the context and culture of each country influence those customs. In Paraguay, especially during my childhood and in earlier times, women didn’t work outside the home, and having lunch was almost a ritual. Unless something made it impossible, food was cooked at the moment it was going to be eaten, and if anything was left over, it would be reheated for dinner.
Now, modern life forces everyone to work, and with luck you take a packed meal to work, or if you’re lucky and the salary allows it, you go out to eat at a restaurant. Maybe for us, eating something hot, despite the heat of the climate, feels like a treat.
Now with microwaves and ready-to-heat meals, many households are losing the habit of cooking their own food, which is absurd, precisely because of those dangers you mention. We don’t know what’s in something industrialized, and the longer it lasts on the shelf, the less I trust its ingredients.
It’s a shame that adults aren’t more considerate toward children, and that they think everything children do is just out of whim.
Women in the Netherlands were one the last having to work although my mother did and made it possible for my father to study and once finished he left. Wise lesson: Never help a guy to climb a ladder.
We never had a microwave accept a I had a shelter for the animals. Many with us might have but they still cook. The supermarkets sell for the lazy ones packages with all ingredients (sliced or not) needed for a certain meal.
Those dinner meals are very expensive and most likely only sold for the elderly still living on their own.
Trust me those fastfood dinners or whatever it is are mainly chemicals and salt + some smell added to it. I would not recommend eating that "Bill Gates'" stuff. They already planned to put the Covid shots into the food.
If adults do not care about themselves why should about their children?
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It's sad when people can't keep their wedding vows. I suppose that's always been the case, only some prefer to lead a double life.
On the other hand, it's a shame that people prioritize comfort over health, and then are shocked when they are diagnosed with diabetes or even worse.
In the neighborhood there is a woman who prefers to buy cigarettes instead of giving milk to her children, which makes me hate that unwritten rule that "everyone has the right to have children".
If they're going to be terrible parents, why have kids at all?! That double standard makes me sick, because in the end, the people who are looked down upon are the ones who decide not to have children!
The question is if they know at forehand they will be bad parents same for ending up a single parent. If you ask me family, society keeps preaching how valuable it is to have children. It is all about love and fun and never all the mountains one should climb, the sacrifices and the serious health damages after giving birth, the endless lack of sleep.
Parents always giving in, spoiling children are also not great parents same for those with overweighted children.
Well, I think there are certain indicators that could predict how good they might be as parents. For example, a woman who never works, and doesn't even do laundry, because if it's dirty she just throws it away.
Of course, there are also those who, despite having money, are bad parents, like the cases you mentioned. If you had to buy a license to have children, including exams, it would be less fortuitous.
And of course, there are mental illnesses, but in the end, it's the children who suffer.
I find it dangerous thing to buy a license the xorrupt ones, influencers will and already do... And who is in charge and decides? What kind of creep decides. I doubt we can predict even 50 % will turn out to be a good parent. The only one who decides is in the end the child, a child influenced by teacher, woke,fake news and whatever the period, culture was they grew up in.
What a sad fate for the children...