So I've got an older sister who is a single mother with like four kids from three different guys and she's not exactly the role model parent.

Her youngest daughter who is around 8 years old weighs more than I do and I'm a 22 year old guy. She feeds her kids Mcdonald's or some other form of fast food at least once, if not twice a day. When I bring this up she says, "Well, I make them food every day!"

Her idea of making food is hamburger helper, lasagna with 9 layers of cheese, or cake. That's literally all her kids eat, that and bag after bag of fritos. Like her kids don't go anywhere without a bag of chips.

So things came to a head when I was watching my twelve year old nephew at my house earlier this week. He starts complaining on and off about being hungry. So I go into the kitchen and spend about 20 minutes making some delicious ****ing beef fajitas with mission white corn tortillas, sour cream, and guacamole.

I bring him a fajita to eat and he immediately dismisses it and says, "no I don't want that it's got green stuff on it."

"Do you even know what that green stuff is?"
"no and I don't want it?"
"Well it's guacamole and it's good and goes with sour cream..."
"I don't want guacamole!"
"Do you even know what guacamole is?"
"No I don't want it. It's a vegetable."

At that point I'm ****ing annoyed by some bitchy little kid who is acting disgusted by something he doesn't even know what it is. If this was a new item on the Mcdonald's dollar menu he wouldn't ask twice...but because it's green and could possibly be a vegetable he won't eat it.

So I go back into the kitchen and make him another fajita without the guacamole and bring it back out.

He immediately tears it open making sure I'm not tricking him and that there isn't really guacamole on it and in the process drops greasy meat on my floor.
He then notices the cheese isn't melted.

"Why is the cheese cold?"
"Because I didn't bother to warm it up because I didn't think you'd eat this fajita either."
"FINE! THEN I WON'T EAT IT." and then proceeds to sling the fajita and greasy napkin across my coffee table.

And then I go off on him, kick him out of my house and tell his mom to come pick him up and then remind myself why I'm never having kids.

So anyway, is this normal behavior for children? The next time her kids come over they refused to eat ANYTHING I have, even though I have a pantry/fridge full of food just because I don't have the typical junk food they are use to. They complain about being thirsty yet refuse to drink the only thing I had, water. Like god forbid if someone drinks something other than carbonated soda every once in a while. They then have to call their mom to get her to drop off bags of chips and gatorade like a god damn east berlin airdrop.

Now my nephew doesn't overeat or anything; it's just that the food he chooses to eat is probably the worst imaginable and has to be causing him some harm. The reason I put up with the kid is because his dad is currently doing 30 in some federal pen and he doesn't really have a father.

But seriously is this **** ****ing normal? This HAS to be bad parenting. Everytime I bring this up to my sister he says, "all kids are like this... even you when you were little."

Fuuuuuck that. I know for a ****ing fact when I was a child that I wouldn't throw out a sandwich because it had a tomato on it. I was never a picky eater. Her oldest daughter who is my age is the worst of them all. My dad tried making her eat a tomato once and she literally acted like she was going to throw up all over the place when he made her pick it up with a fork. The thing all four of these kids have in common is their mother.

So...is there anything I can do about this except hope that her kids grow out of these ****ty eating habits?

totally normal for kids raised like that. problem is its not right (although possibly normal) to raise kids like this. single moms have it tough, but its no excuse. sadly these kids are doomed to horrible and short lives.

edit: just read the end. they will never grow out of this unless they are forced to or are self aware enough to realize the difference between themselves and their peers and motivated enough to do something about it, but highly unlikely. Helping your sister will not be easy, but it is possible if you are willing to spend some time. the key is showing her that healthy meals can be easy to make. If it takes too much effort it will never work. some people advocate showing the ill effects of someones behavior, but I dont think that is very effective. Better to offer reasonably easy solutions. I find most fat kids are whiny and food spoiled so she's gonna have to hardline it: "if you dont like it, no dinner" type ****. Tough love FTW.

99.9% of kids don't eat guacamole. The rest also seems pretty standard after the 4 kids 3 dads comment.

I'd probably hope they get too fat and lazy to become criminals.

I wouldn't care if he would ****ing try it and then come to the conclusion that he doesn't like the taste. But to reject it just because... oh I don't know, that it's green and isn't made of high fructose corn syrup and trans fats?

No offense meant, but yes of course it's bad parenting. Any parent who feeds their kids like that doesn't deserve to have kids. That is child abuse as much as beating them is (hell at least kids that get beaten aren't having years taken off their life). I'd be far more concerned about their eating habits than any (completely expected) temper tantrums. I really don't know there is anything you can do for her kids though, unfortunately. Any help you try and give them is probably going to be viewed by her as a direct attack on her parenting (I mean it is, but she needs to realize how ****ty it is). Have you tried talking to her about her kids eating habits and how badly it is harming them?

It's because it looks like baby poop. I'm 27 and have never had a bite of the stuff in my life. Even if it tasted good I still probably wouldn't eat it.

Obv. how he handled his refusal was inappropriate.

That's hilarious. Yeah, bad situation, offer them decent food when they're over at your place, not much else to do. It's not a gov't thing where they should take her kids away, but she's not doing it right.

I've brought it up several times and I don't really care if she thinks I'm attacking her parenting skills. She just disregards the criticism and retorts that, " I feed my kids home cooked meals every day! and you ate the same junk food that they did when you were small."

Her home cooked meals are probably worse than the fast food.

It's just funny that she was overweight until recently when I think she had a gastric bypass. God I hate criticizing family members like this but it's ****ing ludicrous.

I don't eat guacamole either. Why the **** would you expect an 8 year old to eat that ****? Are you kidding me?

Your sister is a ****ty parent, but expecting a kid to eat a fajita with guacamole and sour cream is stupid.

^^Super standard and normal.

Sounds like your sister hasn't done the greatest job of keeping her kids' diet under control. Not really anything you can do about it. It just sucks.

Sounds like the eating scene growing up in my family. Talking to your sister can't hurt seeing as how building self esteem is crucial to raising children that don't suck...and that's practically impossible to do if they're over weight.

They sound like typical semi-negelected and poorly raised kids of an irresponsible single mother.

I can understand the kid not wanting to eat it, but to start crying and making demands "MELT THE CHEESE" shows how messed up they are.

The odds of these kids growing up to be unlikeable, unhealthy, uneducated, menial labor sclubs is very high unless changes are made.

A. You don't understand kids that well. They are going to be picky with food. Just make the kid something that is simply and edible. Melt some cheese on some beef, wrap that **** up. Guacamole? Come on.

B. You don't NEED to understand kids that well, since you're 22 and have none. Your sister is a ****ty parent, and is somehow managing to be oblivious to how fat her kids are despite nightly news reports discussing how fat everyone's ****ing kids are.

this may be true, but this:

is still not the correct response to his actions.

are u ****ing serious? first of all, THE KID IS TWELVE YEARS OLD. hes practically a teenager. second of all, were not talking about pigs brains. its ****ing avocado. that kid deserves a smack in the mouth. and his mother deserves an even bigger one. shes destroying those kids, and she needs to understand that if she wants any shot at them being anything other than fat spoiled ****s the rest of their lives.

Guac is a delicious food, you two can xiagf.

Agreed -- I wouldn't have behaved like this when I was 4, let alone 12.

guacamole fight itt

lol Americans

The kids' diet isn't really the problem here. They are being raised to be brats by lousy parents (not the worst ever certainly...but it's definitely something to be critical of).

I thought this thread was going to be about kids literally eating poop. My mom told me that I did that once as a toddler. Every now and then, I still get cravings...

Guacamole is probably the best thing to dip chips into/ put on tacos/ in fajitas. It is the dips of all dips. That kid should have received a round house kick to the face for turning down the guac. I could eat that **** for breakfast lunch and dinner. Same thing with a shrimp salad with a red wine vinegrette.

Next time slip him a PB&J loaded with guacamole. That'll teach the little ****er who's boss. Or better yet, rat poison. Do him a favor.

**** punch your sister too. Make sure that no matter how hard she tries, not 1 kid will be able to squeeze out of her swollen cooch.

A fajita taco with guac and sour cream sounds damn good to me.

I'm hungry.

Yeah, make him a grilled cheese sandwich.

Guacamole is delicious, completely unacceptable, I'll take it.