overheard a conversation....

**BetterLateThanNever** · 12-03-2007, 06:49 PM

at the grocery store the other day. Was picking out a loaf of bread and this mother and teen-age daughter were looking at breakfast cereals.

Daughter: " Let's get Lucky Charms"

Mom: " Well, they're $5 a box."

Daughter (slightly pouty and whiney) "But that's the kind I like!"

Mom "Too bad! I"m not paying $5 for a box of cereal! Good Grief! It's a box of cereal!"

I just stared laughing. 1.) Mom's right it is ridiculous to pay $5 for cereal 2.) Reminds me of some of the arguments that I used to have with my mom when I was a teenager 3.) Maybe i'm truning into an old fuddy duddy but it's starting to get on my nerves when I hear kids say they gotta have this and this and that. actually gets on my nerves when I hear Adults say the same thing. I wonder if people ever really think about how they're depending on "STUFF" to make them happy.

**Lisahas2cats** · 12-03-2007, 07:10 PM

My favorite answer when DS used to desperately "need" something like that was "Sure! You brought your money, right? You didn't? Guess you'll have to wait till next time".

**yonksgirl** · 12-03-2007, 10:27 PM

My Daughter and cousin gang up on my MIL! They will see a toy on TV for each other and will say "Nanna Maxell needs that" or, Maxwell will say "Nanna Ashley needs that!" LOL!!! It cracks me up....... but I know what you mean, I am guilty of giving in, but I m getting ALOT better!

**justpeachy92** · 12-03-2007, 11:35 PM

My 3 yr old is the one that asks me for stuff all the time in the store. I think I have told her "no it isn't on the list" one too many times. I was sitting at the table earlier working on my sociology homework, she saw a commercial for some toy. Comes over and says "momma you making the list put that on it."

**Squirt** · 12-04-2007, 07:04 AM

I'm glad there are still parents out there who can tell their kids no.

I'm also pretty sure I didn't know what Lucky Charms tasted like until I was an adult. That's another problem in itself

but I'm glad my mom never broke her back spoiling us.

**MarshHen** · 12-04-2007, 10:57 AM

I have a friend who will cook a meal and if the kids don't happen to like what she cooked, she will then cook them what they want. These kids are 13 & 15! I grew up eating what momma put on the table, and my kids and grandkids did/do the same. If you don't like it, I'm sorry. All of my kids knew better to pull that crap in any store (grocery or not) too.

I would tell them what my daddy would tell us when we would say we wanted or wished for something stupid or we didn't need. Crap in one hand and want/wish in the other and see which one fills up the fastest. LOL!

**joyofsix** · 12-04-2007, 11:04 AM

LOL! My kids don't even try. Now dh, that's another story.

**McD** · 12-04-2007, 11:29 AM

I refuse to take my son in the grocery store with me.

**McD** · 12-04-2007, 11:34 AM

Originally Posted by MrsMcDowell

I refuse to take my son in the grocery store with me.

Meant to say Husband. He is horrible!

**thriftstorequeen** · 12-04-2007, 11:46 AM

It's kinda funny that my grown kids and I were talking about this the other day. We raised 5 kids on my hubby's pay only. We cut corners all over the place! They never asked for anything in the store. I'm not kidding. Don't get me wrong we did get them plenty of treats. They knew from an early age that we only had so much money. Once in while I would let them pick something they would like from a list that I gave them.