nothing better than gangly 15yo tucking into 5 weetabix straight after huge dinner?

[lightlypoached]

AIBU as a mother to think there is nothing better than watching your 15 yo gangly, long-legged lovely boy tucking into a giant bowl of cereal just after demolishing a giant dinner of pasta?

• @AlaskanOilBaron* I have a rower too , unbelievable what he gets through. 😂

i want to know how you all manage to have these rake thin, slim, beanpole types.
DS is built like a barn (doesnt do sport or exercise) but has enormously wide shoulders and huge thighs. He eats more than the rest of us but nothing like the amounts listed on here.

Not sure why you've bothered posting this as teens eat and eat and its a healthy snack/meal.

Good Lord....listen to all the " my boy eats more than your boy " overly competitive mums on here......

Until I read this thread, I genuinely had no idea that adults ate Weetabix. I thought it was for babies/toddlers.
It's so squidgy..…!

dementedma, how tall is he? DS has the appetite of a bear, but he is growing like a weed. He also does a lot of exercise (loves sport in all forms).

As I said earlier- we, and they, are all different; there is no one size fits all.

shockers he's about 6 foot 2 but wide. 44 inch chest.
He's not known as Lurch round here for nothing. He doesn't eat breakfast - never has, going way back to when he was a very small child - will have a baguette or wrap for lunch, snack when he comes home from school and I will admit that generally takes the form of biscuits or crap that he buys on the way home. Dinner is usually something like pasta, fajitas, pizza, shepher's pie, stir fry etc which he will have quite a large portion of and then he might have one bowl of cereal or two slices of toast for supper but I don't think all of that is a huge amount for his age and size.
Let me see, today was....home made banana pancakess late morning, a bowl of pasta this afternoon, and two veggie burgers in rolls for dinner. Nothing like the amounts some people are listing. For which I'm grateful!!!

Well, I’ve been on this forum for over ten years and that is one of the nastiest posts I have ever read NewYorkDoll. What a weird mindset you have. Glad I don’t live in your head.

And the sheer length of it too. You really got your teeth into it didn’t you?

We call both of ours, ‘my darling boy’. One is 31, the other 18.

It’s a reference to Danny, Champion of the World. It was a favourite book for all of us when they were small, and it’s stuck. It’s said with great affection, but not all of the time.

Live and let live- every family is different.

Conversely I have a 13 year old who eats less than a toddler.....

I agree with Carol.

And the mothers who call their 30 y.o. grown MEN 'my darling boys' are the ones who get snippy on here when someone refers to a 21 y.o female as a girl PMSL.

It is a bit weird how such an OP could have brought out so much nastiness. I can't see what some posters are getting so uptight about.

SURELY YOU MEAN WOMAN OP?!!

And the mothers who call their 30 y.o. grown MEN 'my darling boys' are the ones who get snippy on here when someone refers to a 21 y.o female as a girl PMSL.

You know this for sure do you?

HOLD THE FRONT PAGE, some people have different opinions, and are not fawning over the OP. WHO KNEW?????????

I think some people are on the wrong forum. Try netmums.

By the way CAROL, I will put posts that are as LONG as I like ta. Wh made YOU the forum police?!

WHO made you the forum police? (obvs)

So it's Netmums or ridiculously OTT nasty is it? I don't think so

Oh it was only an observation, just like all of yours, though not as long obviously, not an instruction. You can tell the difference can’t you?

My almost 4yo DD is a bottomless pit.

Today she had:
B: 2 weetabix + whole punnet strawberries (was a small punnet to be fair)
S: 5 cheese crackers and humus
L: 3 thin richmond sausages, tomatoes, cucumber and rice
S: Prawn crackers and Apple
D: Bolognese, gnocchi, broccoli and cauliflower
S: Whole avocado and 2 bananas (she took the second without asking)

She is recovering from a virus and probably didn't eat the above in the whole week she was poorly so I'm going with it, although she tends eat pretty "well" in general.

She's a very active and lively child, average height and slim.

Makes up for my fussy 6yo

Seeing as people have taken offence at my post, and got it deleted, I shall repost my points, but I will tone it down.

@PhilomenaButterfly

I still call my 28 yo my gorgeous boy, because he is.

Why do you call a MAN knocking the door of 30 a boy?

Some people on here proper go off on one when posters call a young female adult a girl, but it seems to be OK to call men in their 30's 'boys.' What does your SON think of you calling him your gorgeous BOY? Just told my husband this, and he said he would be embarrassed if his mother did it.

@RhiWrites

Choose your topics wisely. I mean, what responses did the OP hope for? Just ones saying “I Also love watching my growing teen devour food, scrummy!”?

This.^

@willdoitinaminute

In answer to the “creepy thread” posters, it’s all part of the parenting process.

No it's not. And I certainly don't see/hear mothers of girls acting the same over their daughters.

@shouldreadmore

I guess those who don't understand that you still feel love and affection for teenage boys probably have no children or very young ones. However much you personally dislike teenage boys (and lots on MN do ), the fact is that most of us who do have them love them just as much as we did when they were babies.

How rude. Do you think mothers don't love their DAUGHTERS as much as when they were babies?! All you are doing is backing up what some posters have said about mothers of sons on here.

It's not just ME who has said negative stuff about the OP's posts, at LEAST a dozen other posters are saying similar things. Some much worse, yet MINE gets deleted.