How to keep your kid from being an entitled little shit…...

[KQ]

Geez, I lived at home through college and for a year or two after that. My parents were happy to have me and I was happy to be there. We had family dinners and hung out together whenever we weren't all busy but then my Dad was terminal and as I mentioned before my siblings had died so maybe I'm a one off. Got a car for Christmas my senior year of HS (used) and another for college graduation (new). Didn't buy my first car until 1996 and I still have it. Don't feel entitled, just fortunate (about some things).

[east or bust]

Geez, I lived at home through college and for a year or two after that. My parents were happy to have me and I was happy to be there. We had family dinners and hung out together whenever we weren't all busy but then my Dad was terminal and as I mentioned before my siblings had died so maybe I'm a one off. Got a car for Christmas my senior year of HS (used) and another for college graduation (new). Didn't buy my first car until 1996 and I still have it. Don't feel entitled, just fortunate (about some things).

Agreed, there's a difference between entitled and having parents that may be finically stable enough to help out some. Not to say if they are they are then they're obligated to help out, that would be entitled.

[riser4]

I hope you thanked her for that?

Yer mom is pretty core, I was thinking if a kid is done H-school and not saving for or going to post sec ... I want some money .

I don't think it quite worked out the way she intended. I ended up limiting my self for a while because of it. However, I did learn a bunch of things the hard way and in the end I guess it worked out.

[KQ]

nice to hear it worked out nicely for you. for many that i grew up with, it didn't work out so well. i had zero interest in going to college once i graduated hs as i just wanted to ski, so until i moved out the following fall, my mom charged me rent as i was supporting myself just fine at 18 and knew i'd never have college loans to deal with. mom did it right. for me anyway.

I don't know how nicely it worked out. It was what it was. I would have traded college and move out for having my family alive today.

[DasBlunt]

so Bill wrote a scathingly funny and tore the tiger mom a new ass and taint with this article…

"the miseducation of the Tiger Mom". Hilarious. go slow some of you….Bill moves REALLY fast with the ass ripping of the Lawyer couple (tiger mom and hubby).

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/1...nfeld-reviewed

PS, I don't read the new republic on purpose, just the google feed of 1000s.

[BmillsSkier]

I know you're new here, but round these parts when you wanna hype your ski town dirt job you just say "livin' the dream brah!"

There's an annuity selling forum by the way. At Alpinezone. PM Gregfromalpinezone for the deets.

[NoPostholio]

I know you're new here

That is funniest thing all day here -
Jong Jong Blu eh?

[BmillsSkier]

That is funniest thing all day here -
Jong Jong Blu eh?

I'm feeling benevolent I guess. I'll JONG more in the future I promise.

Or did Advres change his login again? I can't keep up.

[NoPostholio]

Sure, we can put Blu through the paces so his Jong ass gets lay of the land. You will be ok kid - just lay low on emoticons, they are a tell on bad grammar ing

[DasBlunt]

That's just one of the ways that I'm fortunate enough to make money. Real estate has been the bread winner. Annuities are another. Tune skis till I'm 59.5 and working stops. . Wanna touch me?

not being sarcastic when I say….hell yeah!

[NoPostholio]

I am just gonna work on Blu not becoming entitled little shit, posting like he has 11k of them already - maybe over with your new schooler brahs you r icon

Here you are straight up jong until you master mtw and join clownbiking circus show

[skifishbum]

$$$'s are bigger with that special degree. let's people know you got more than street smarts. tuning and selling other folks skis is no way to raise a fambly.

beats luggage fetchin huh
only the roj could rebrand himself after a brand of electronic ciggies
yup
e- fag r him

[Swine]

A good response to the William Deresiewicz article by Joshua Rothman, in the New Yorker.

Rothman's article is titled "What College Can't Do". A short quote.

It would be comforting, in a way, if the Ivy League were a particularly soulless place. But is that really a plausible thing to say about a place like Yale, with its playing fields and courtyards, its libraries and theatres, and—most importantly—its population of energetic, intelligent, optimistic young people? I tend to draw the opposite conclusion from Deresiewicz’s data: the fact that you can feel soulless in such an intellectual paradise suggests that the problem is bigger than college.

[iceman]

If Deresieiewicz was as smart as all that he would've gotten tenure at Yale. Since he isn't and he didn't, it's not too hard to imagine that he feels a bit hostile towards the place and others like it.

[reganized]

High school graduation party last night across the street. Lots of S Class Benz's 7 series bimmer, Audi SUVs and escalades. Shit the shittiest cars there were a couple new jeeps. my kids gonna drive some POS that s/he worked for. If she's a good kid I might kick in a % of it but not much. One of em knelt down behind their car (my yard) to piss before driving home. I let it slide this time....

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[Tippster]

not being sarcastic when I say….hell yeah!

You... want to touch him? Where?

[Tippster]

so Bill wrote a scathingly funny and tore the tiger mom a new ass and taint with this article…

"the miseducation of the Tiger Mom". Hilarious. go slow some of you….Bill moves REALLY fast with the ass ripping of the Lawyer couple (tiger mom and hubby).

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/1...nfeld-reviewed

PS, I don't read the new republic on purpose, just the google feed of 1000s.

That was actually a rather entertaining read on a Saturday Morning.

[wickstad]

Not sure if there is an entire generation of entitled youth across the board buy it sure seems like there is more and more entitlement emerging or at least what appears to myself as entitlement in traffic and the workplace. I find myself wondering if these folks who I consider to be "entitled" actually had to fight their way down the birth canal to be born into this world or were they maybe the "victim" of a ceserean section.

[Sirshredalot]

Not sure if there is an entire generation of entitled youth across the board buy it sure seems like there is more and more entitlement emerging or at least what appears to myself as entitlement in traffic and the workplace. I find myself wondering if these folks who I consider to be "entitled" actually had to fight their way down the birth canal to be born into this world or were they maybe the "victim" of a ceserean section.

I think there are two different trends to discuss here. One is that today's young people, in general can not feel more entitled than their baby boomer parents. The me generation just can't be beat here unless you feel that being raised by a baby boomer is worse than being one. The median 25 year old has had a markedly more difficult time getting through college and entering the workforce than her parents. If getting shit handed to you produces feelings of entitlement, there should be less of it now.

On the other hand, heritable wealth is on the rise over that time period and class mobility is down. So there may be a greater share of dickbags with trust funds and beemers out there.

[that dude who did that thing]

Any time you find yourself using the phrase "today's youth" and then saying something nasty about them, just remind yourself you are officially an "old fuck" and proving DD correct.

It amazes me that EVERY generation can be so fucking stupid as to imagine that their complaints about the younger generation are somehow unique or more correct than the criticisms leveled by the previous generation.

[Harry]

It amazes me that EVERY generation can be so fucking stupid as to imagine that their complaints about the younger generation are somehow unique or more correct than the criticisms leveled by the previous generation.

Truth.

No link, but onetime I saw an article written in 1938 about how the youth of the day were a bunch of lazy dickwads. Fast forward a few years and those lazy ass kids stormed Iwo Jima and are now called "The Greatest Generation".

[Cono Este]

"That is why an undergraduate experience devoted exclusively to career preparation is four years largely wasted."

I have to disagree with this. American Universities are probably the least career orientated colleges in the world. "learning to think" is important, but for the average kid, learning to make a happy living is what counts. And when college costs are soaring, the idea that a graduate degree is almost a necessity after forking out for 4 yrs at Yale is a joke. The author seems to be part of the problem to me.

My kids are only 10, and I can already see they recognize money too much. Since I grew up as an expat, I had no choice but to attend the most expensive schools in the countries I lived in. But I do not recommend it to my friends who think since they can now afford more than they had, they should send their kids to those schools. The educations are really no better, and paying attention to your kids schooling at home is where the difference is made. A stable career and happy life for my kids is all I hope for.

[snowsprite]

I wish I could give my son more...but I can't. Life circumstances stripped me of the ability to do much to help him on his path.

Meanwhile, he's been making me proud with what he has been able to do with what little I've given him. I love him, and would lay down my life for him in a second. But this amazing freaking adult-like drive that he has been displaying...it is just astonishing.

I still would give anything I have for him, but am so damned amazed at his ability to blaze his own way. He is a special kind of person. He is a strong, amazing person. I am so fucking lucky. I realize this every damned day.

[XXX-er]

I wish I could give my son more...

It sounds to me like he has everything he needs and doesn't need if you give/had given your son more wouldn't he be in much greater danger of becoming an entitled little shit ?

[PNWbrit]

a special kind of person.

So refreshing to hear a parent talking about their kid like this.....