It’s fun to go in tangential directions like this, I get on conversations with some people like that and what was a 5 minute check in turns into a 35 minute conversation haha. It’s good though because it’s important to have these broad discussions. We need to get away from this hiding and polarizing shit and back to conversations, learning and adjustments in our lives and mental states.

There is far too much incentive to take the short cuts and I think that’s also another issue here. It’s a short cut to just go get fast food for your kid instead of taking time to do meal prep. Don’t sit on the couch and watch some horse shit TV show, get into the kitchen and do meal prep and even include the kids. Let them peel a cucumber or potato, cut up (with kid friendly knives) different veggies or foods. There’s a lot of things we can do better for sure but it is crucial to turn off the distractions.