OMG yes!! those small cereal boxes that are just one serving and those tiny cafeteria milk cartons would be perfect. She wouldn't need any supervision at all then but I know Asa would say "but she needs to learn with normal size because that's what we have in the house" and to that I say "Accommodate your daughter you piece of tit!"
Seriously.
He goes on about wanting Abbie to have a "soft place to land" in this world.
Motherfucker, you won't even make
her own home a soft place to land.
The cereal thing is such a weird hill to die on. It really is.
I can at least """understand""" that his wife wants the home to look a certain way and that things like toddler toys and sensory equipment doesn't fit in with that vision. I'm strongly against the whole concept, but it at least makes sense in a selfish, entitled, greedy way.
Why not portion cereal and milk to make it easier for Abbie to do with some independence? What's the big deal with that? They have the money to buy the individual prepackaged servings, but even if they wanted to save money on this one single area of their lives it would cost under $10 to buy a couple reusable containers for them to portion cereal and milk into the night before.
And that would be a little actual independence for Abbie.
I'm reminded of a couple years ago when I needed to buy a new microwave. While browsing for what to get, I discovered that an Alexa-controlled microwave is a thing that exists. Seems silly, right? Why would you need to talk to your microwave? That's exactly what I thought at first, but then it occurred to me that my younger kid can't use their hands very well, and has a lot of trouble recognizing numbers and letters.
So I spent the extra few bucks to get the Alexa microwave. And I started showing kiddo how to push the blue button and say "thirty seconds." Somehow the Alexa can understand their version of that most of the time. Before much longer, my kid could go to the fridge, get a hot dog out of the bag, and microwave it for "firty eckin" completely on their own.
My child can now reheat some simple foods and "cook" things like hot dogs independently. I put the microwave on a shelf they can reach easily, and I bought some microwave-safe unbreakable plates made out of grass or wheat or some
tit that sit on the shelf below and my elementary-aged child can fix themselves lunch or a snack.
It's such a simple accommodation but it's made such a huge difference.
And this ignorant spheroid won't even buy his daughter individual servings of cereal and milk to help her out a little.