Share your 'dysfunction'!

amother

Tealblue

Sun, Jan 21 2024, 11:07 pm

I like this thread
We all have some level of healthy dysfunction

I never make supper on Sundays or Thursdays (only Monday- Wednesday at best)
For shabbos for the main course I only make one salad and we're full (my kids are little)
I sometimes ask my kids to do a good cleanup of the playroom or basement and offer them candy as a reward

amother

Trillium

Sun, Jan 21 2024, 11:11 pm

amother Crystal wrote:

If we are walking in the street and my 4 year old is singing on top of his lungs.. yes we are aware of the fact and letting him do wheat he loves . Tongue Out

My baby is turning 20 now. I love when I’m on the couch Shabbos morning or when around when kids are going to/coming home from playgroup and I hear them singing at the top of their lungs. What’s better than a happy little shmushkie?

amother

Tanzanite

Sun, Jan 21 2024, 11:39 pm

When we’re not having guests (we almost never do) and I make potato kugel, I eat the entire crust when it comes out of the oven. So if you’d come over to my house you’d see a very dysfunctional kugel. I always tell my kids, don’t tell anyone …

Oh yea there’s more don’t worry, but that’s what I’m sharing for now.

amother

Ecru

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 12:34 am

amother Tealblue wrote:

we're so similar! Sundays are hot dogs, deli sandwiches if I have leftover deli, or sometimes homemade pizza (frozen store-bought base, marinara sauce and cheese). Thursdays are usually either eggs on toast or my husband takes the kids to a cheap deli to buy shnitzels nuggest and latkes (super healthy!)
I also make only one course on shabbos if its just us. It would go to waste if I made more so I don't consider that dysfunction, just practicality.

realsilver

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 12:37 am

amother Tealblue wrote:

I would not call any of these dysfunctions!! can you explain??

amother

Marigold

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 12:43 am

Before I read the thread, my first response was sympasic pubic dysfunction Very Happy

IYKYK!!

my other dysfunctions are-
I never ever wash dishes. I have a cleaning lady three times a week, sometimes four, and dishes wait for her.
I'm pregnant and brushing my teeth makes me too nauseous, so I just don't.

amother

Babyblue

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 12:45 am

amother Tealblue wrote:

I sometimes ask my kids to do a good cleanup of the playroom or basement and offer them candy as a reward

You offer them a treat after a big cleanup?????? Omg. Such dysfunction!!!!

chocolatecake

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 1:12 am

If my baby is clean on Sunday evening, I will not bathe or pj him. He will wear the same clothing to playgroup on Monday!

Tzutzie

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 1:24 am

amother Babyblue wrote:

You offer them a treat after a big cleanup?????? Omg. Such dysfunction!!!!

I think a lot of posters are using the word "hack" and "dysfunction" interchangeably in this thread.

amother

Tuberose

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 1:35 am

Friday night we do not eat a main dish. Only if we have guest. No one can move after the soup so I consider it a waste.
Shabbos day meal we start with cholent (also only if no guest). I want my kids to eat a bowl of cholent and if we eat the seudah in the right order everyone will be too full to move.
It feels dysfunctional but it works for us. Our seudos are so enjoyable this way.

amother

Lemonchiffon

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 1:38 am

amother Marigold wrote:

I'm pregnant and brushing my teeth makes me too nauseous, so I just don't.

Can you at least use mouthwash to protect your teeth?

Queen Of Hearts

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 1:42 am

amother Lemonchiffon wrote:

Can you at least use mouthwash to protect your teeth?

When I'm pregnant I can only brush my teeth. Not mouthwash. The gargling makes me gag and vomit.

mandr

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 1:48 am

I clean between my toes a few times a week, like monkeys do. And the crazy thing is, my kids do it too.

If this doesn’t out me, I don’t know what does.

amother

Birch

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 1:55 am

amother Sand wrote:

If my ds wants to wear a non matching top with his pants we let him.

My 2 year old wore rubber rain boots to preschool every day last week even though there was not a cloud in the sky.
On shabbos and often on a regular afternoon DC will strip down and wear only underwear.
I choose my battles...

PractclyPerfect

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 2:16 am

mandr wrote:

I clean between my toes a few times a week, like monkeys do. And the crazy thing is, my kids do it too.

If this doesn’t out me, I don’t know what does.

I think many of us will be outed by this same fact. Or maybe there is anonymity in numbers?

amother

Mintgreen

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 2:41 am

When we don't have guests there's no main course Friday night.

I make a huge pot of soup with kneidel, tons of veggies, and a whole chicken. No one is ever hungry after that anyway. If someone is really hungry two bowls of soup will fill them up.

amother

Birch

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 3:45 am

amother Mintgreen wrote:

We do this to. I don't see it as dysfunctional at all, more like practicality. Why waste my time cooking when that's all we eat anyway.