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Story 2: My six year old frequently wants to try something I’m eating, and I let him try it, thinking it will be too sour or too spicy for him. More often than not, he likes it and wants more. Sometimes kids might surprise you with what they can tolerate eating.

Story 2: …OP was THIRTEEN. They were certainly old enough to have experienced spicy food. Had they told grandma it was too spicy, she probably would’ve laughed while serving a helping of the kid safe food. Op didn’t keep going out of fear of losing a meal. They didn’t stop because they felt some arbitrary need to prove, “I’m not a baby anymore”. This was simply OPs first taste at teenage rebellion, and their family helped them learn a lesson. I was about 2 or 3 when I started becoming aware of my grandma putting pepper sauce on her greens every time she ate them. The little jars of Texas Pete that have Tabasco peppers soaking in vinegar. Not terribly hot, but hot enough that most kids don’t like them. I’d eaten these greens numerous times and loved them. There was one time, I was about 4, we sat down at a restaurant and I just WOULD NOT STOP trying to grab that bottle of pepper sauce. I mean, I was DETERMINED to take that cap off and down the whole bottle. Eventually, my grandma decided she was going to teach me a lesson. She opened it, put a bit on one of the dinner rolls, and gave it to me. Not enough to cause any damage, but a little more than I was used to in her greens. It backfired, because I ended up loving it. But I did stop reaching for it, as my curiosity had been fulfilled. It’s not child a*use to comply with a child’s act of rebellion, so long as you control the level of chaos they experience.

Story 2 - that is a great teaching moment. OP doesn't even sound mad at grandma, because she treated him how he wanted to be treated, and he learned his lesson. Trying new stuff is great, but also - as my father used to say "don't let your alligator mouth overload your hummingbird asshole" (don't bite off more than you can chew)

3:00 You'd be surprised how many people go through that learning that life lesson (I did, with mustard, lol) and everyone on reddit will jump out and advocate on this being bad and the big CA, except for the person telling the story.

PTO Story: Well you know what they say, don't hate the employee following the policy, hate the one that wrote it. Gotta use that PTO while ya can!

Last Story: People who do not discipline their pets are just the worst. Without discipline, your pet WILL end up getting into something they are not supposed to get into. They WILL end up running into traffic to chase another animal. Your pet WILL die if you do not teach them not to do certain things, because they are wired to go do the whatever thing excites them the most. If they want to go chase another animal, they must be trained to not do that. They want to eat people food, and without training they WILL eat something that will just kill them. And no, positive reinforcement is not enough in its own to keep an animal in line because without discipline the chance is always higher that your animals base instincts will take over. If you buy an animal or have a kid, your entire life now becomes all about keeping them alive. If you can't do that, the child or animal will be taken from you. Either as a natural consequence of them getting into or doing something they should never have done, or by the law after you barely save your child or animal from death because of your negligence. Don't you dare get an animal if you will not teach it how to overcome its basic instincts.

As a parent its your job to protect your child from injuring themselves. Not from pain. Yes the spicy gumbo was unpleasant for sure. But the kid was at an age where they then subsequently understood "Oh, this is why we kids get different food". Protecting your child from any and all pain (physically or emotionally), also protects them from learning valuable life experience

On the malicious compliance about using leave time. When I was retiring HR had a rule that you could only take two weeks (10 days) of vacation at a time. You had to be back from work on the 11th day. No exceptions. And the managers higher up were not going to go to bat for anyone. They had even turned down longer vacations for people traveling overseas on vacation. So just before I retired I was reassigned to another team (IT consolidation) The new manager was being a real B hole. and was already sending me nastygrams BEFORE I started to report to him. SO I went to my current manager and put in my leave. (I had almost 3 months saved up) and had to apply for leave that would last 10 days, come in the office one day then 10 more days, until it was all used up. So for my last 3 months I would report in for one day (work from home - did nothing) and then be back on vacation. My new manager could not say anything as my vacation was already approved.

My kid ate the extra spicy salsa at restaurants with a spoon at 2 years old. We let him try a little bite on a chip to see if he'd like it and he went nuts. From then on he'd just grab the salsa bowl and try to drink it, so we encouraged him to use a spoon instead. Now he's a chili head at 19, lol.

12:07 I knew a family, that had a dog that they never bothered to train or discipline. Their dad got their grown adult daughter with no job or responsibilities a young puppy, this beautiful chalk white husky with crystal blue eyes and it had these black smudges under its eyes like it applied fresh liquid eyeliner lol but once the dog started growing more and was no longer “cute” they just started leaving it tied up in the basement in a kennel and only took it out for walks which they let them just pull them along because they never trained the dog not to do that. Then they’d put the dog away and go back upstairs to their video games and movies. Idk if that dog is still alive but it was a grown adult for the few years I knew them and the dog was as dumb as a rock. Not its fault of course but it was of no good use just like the daughter