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I am a dang good cook. Got started cooking in self defense long ago when I was in school way up in Charlottesville where I couldn't bum any food from family and SWMBO was pregnant and wasn't able to cook. Turned out I was pretty good at it and enjoyed doing it. But SWMBO is also an extremely good cook. She's better at reproducing results than me because I can't resist experimenting and regard recipes as merely hortatory in nature while she treats them as inflexible and inviolate and was raised to believe that wasting food (which I admit I have done on occasion when an experiment got out of hand) was a sin. That means sometimes we make a good team; although I usually wind up taking some pretty stout butt-chewin's.

But she does almost all the cooking because she says it is less trouble to cook, serve and clean up on her own than it is to just assist and clean up after me.

When the kids were growing up, we not only ran a full-blown cooking operation dang near 24/7 for them; we fed half the football team, half the band, and nearly all the cheerleaders. Between the two of us, we dispensed tons of grub and a fair amount of avuncular advice at our kitchen table. I used to kid the guys on the sports teams that the purpose of a boy was to feed one end and beat the other, so they'd damn well better behave themselves if they stuck their feet under my table. I suspect they only half believed it, but the had enough respect for me to at least lie about it when they did misbehave. Don't see how you can raise young'uns right without doin' some heavy-duty feeding, myself.

Bottom line: Seems to me that human nature dictates the kitchen used to be and still ought to be the center of the household. Those women who now regard cooking as demeaning would have been shunned as sorry triflin' lazy hussies that wouldn't feed their households just a few years back. And the "modern career women that look down on traditional housewives for cooking their own food are more than likely just jealous because they don't know how.

Wife does the cooking and the child-related stuff, I do the housework and all groundskeeping (which I enjoy since I'm a desk jockey and need the activity).

We alternate though, sometimes she'll vacuum and do the dishes while I take on a diarrheal diaper bomb.

Our yard isn't fenced which kinda limits our kids yard activity given the semi-busy road we live on; we actually have a nice little sump (not sure if they've got a different name here) they can play in when older that I've been clearing brush, debris, and snake holes from...so far five trailers worth cleared with three to go.

Good exercise for me too!

My husband is an amazing cook. He does the special cooking and I do the day to say three meals a day. It works well.

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I'll say, many kids in my generation are outright stupid and ignorant. I'll give you an example of my work.

Me: raised country. Strict parents, raised me to get my own job if I wanted something and never complain about what I want/don't have and see how I can going about getting what I NEED. I don't complain much and when work comes about I either get it done quickly or if I don't know how to do it I fin instructions or ask.

One of my guys: city boy. Well-traveled (or so he claims, never seen his passport). Has a degree in Poli-Sci women's study. Went to law-school (never finished). This "kid" is 27 and can't carry a box if his life depended on it. When it comes to tasking, I have to ensure I to around and double check what he does to see that he even did it at all, much less done it right. Always asks "What should I do OS2?" My reply "I don't care, just get it done right."

Another: she's 28. Has a degree and very athletic. Problem? She appeared to be never told no as a kid. Has problems with authority and has the mindset of a 16 year old. Throws tantrums worse than my 7 year old. Also a city girl. When it comes to getting things done she can do it well, but she will complain about it the whole time. I've even had to give her a stern talk that if she continues to be disobey or become out of line further I will send her for help.

My last one I'll speak of is my go-to guy. He's a city boy, southern, moms from South Carolina but he was raised in Ohio. Very intellectual, hard working, sharp as a tack. Never has problems doing work or finding ways of getting things done. He evens finds ways of doing things more economical or just plain smarter. Wise beyond his years.

I point these guys out because there's the underlying problem of parenting. The parents that give their princesses everything, the ones that give their kids whatever they so want and desire and not make them or push them to work for it. That is the problem with my generation and the upcoming one as well. We are weaker, we are less intelligent when it comes to common sense stuff, but we're also a product of the parents who raise us. Some things you can change easily. When things become a learned habit is when things get almost impossible to get rid of.

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Coastie is CORRECT!

I know longer subjugate folks into races, or parties, or philosophies...

It's "Are you Country? Or Are you City?"

Ben Spock did this Country no favors, VACoastie.

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With all this cooking talk, I'm kinda getting a hankering for some fat boys pork palace.

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I saw this AP story re-printed a few days ago in the Frederick News Post. I work in Maryland and somebody had brought the paper into work. Here is the article headline they ran:

"Kids worldwide are less fit than there parents were, study says"

I don't know what's more pathetic: The fact that some AP journalist felt it necessary to publish a story which anyone with even the smallest semblance of a brain can observe through just one trip to a mall (childhood obesity is out of control) ... or the fact that apparently the journalist or editor who re-printed the story actually thought "THERE" was the correct word to use in the article's headline. At least they got it correct on THEIR web site. Makes me wonder what's worse -- childhood obesity and general laziness or our abundantly evident lack of language skills as compared to other developed countries.

Trust me... at this point?

Anyone YOUNGER than 30 is SUSPECT! HAHAHAH

Take that Roger Daltry!