Startin' 'em young

[Apathy]

Yeah, two + whining = zero, definitely.

Also, I fully agree with the "bubblewrapping" comment. Shield your kids from all of life's dangers, and they won't be able to take care of themselves when they have to. This is why I don't agree with the ground-up rubber they put down in playgrounds nowadays. Gravel was good for you. Taught you how to take pain and why acting like a moron is a bad idea.

[fish3k1]

So, of course, in classic style, the parents cave and buy this little jerk his three games. Way to raise a well balanced kid.

This is of particular annoyance to me. When everyone else IN THE WORLD possible exaggeration had a PlayStation, I had a SEGA Master System.

About 3 years after the release of the PS1 I got one.

The next year, I got a SEGA Mega Drive as well (that's a Genesis for you yanks). Yep, I got the SEGA AFTER I got a PS1.

The first up-to-date console I ever owned was the GameCube I bought out of my own money.

I hate spoiled little like this who whine and moan so Mummy and Daddy will try and buy their affection.

[pyxee]

I got my Super Nintendo about a year after the Playstation came out.....I thought I was the luckiest kid in the world. When I would even get to go out a rent a game to play I thanked my mom about a thousand times.
If one of my kids throws a fit like that.....not only would they be going home with ZERO games, they would also find their precious 360 taken away and stored in the garage for a few weeks. Of course that would be on the assumption I would even give one of my kids a 360, which is not likely, since they spend too much time in front of the TV anyways. I really don't want them to do it more.

[Kalga]

Ugh!

If I or my brother had pulled that crap, that's a guarantee that we'd be getting no games at all.

^-.-^

If I had pulled that crap, then I'd have blood around my wrists from the sheer grip of my mothers hand around it. (She has talons)

Also, I fully agree with the "bubblewrapping" comment.

Gravel, woodchips the size of your head, it's all good. The only good thing about the rubber is in the spring it heats up to a nice temperture.

Woodchips: Because nothing is safer then jumping off a swingset into a pile of two inch long splinters.

[Apathy]

Woodchips: Because nothing is safer then jumping off a swingset into a pile of two inch long splinters.

That'll build character pretty damn fast.

[Tito]

Jeez, if I had done that when I was a kid, I, too, would have left the store with nothing. I can only imagine what that kid will be like when he is a teenager.

[chainedbarista]

ungrateful by the busload, they are...

i was grateful to get things; mom and dad rarely bought us much of anything, so a gift on the fly was a rare event. if we threw a fit, we got nothing, then had a punishment waiting for us at home.

tantrums were not tolerated on any level, period.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I was happy to get a matchbox car or book myself. $60 games. yeesh.

Hell, if I were gonna whine about wanting something as a kid it would have been a book. Not that I did, because my parents were usually more than happy to provide books. And I didn't cry if I got 2 instead of 3. My birthday/Christmas wish lists were usually at least 80% books (ah, who am I kidding...they still are!).

[Lioness Blackfire]

Oooh, this kind of non-parenting makes me so steamed! My mom's biggest peeve was whining. I can guarantee you, even if she'd promised me a toy/book/candy, if I whined about it, I'd be going home empty-handed!

My birthday/Christmas wish lists were usually at least 80% books (ah, who am I kidding...they still are!).

Someone of my own heart!

kids living with their parents until their 20s or 30s

Actually, it's only within the last couple of generations that -not- living with your parents past age 22-ish has become the norm. My grandparents, for instance, lived with my grandmother's parents after they were married - my dad was even born there! At the time, this was perfectly normal. What with the rising home prices, it was likely to go back to this way at least partially even without the very spoiled majority of the youngest generation.

Eh heh, sorry that I'm defensive over that subject. As a 20-year-old "unpublished author" whom nobody in the city is willing to hire and who doesn't have (and can't make) the money to go back to school... well, it's a given that I'm living with my parents.

Also, sorry for the threadjack!

[BookstoreEscapee]

Eh heh, sorry that I'm defensive over that subject. As a 20-year-old "unpublished author" whom nobody in the city is willing to hire and who doesn't have (and can't make) the money to go back to school... well, it's a given that I'm living with my parents.

Also, sorry for the threadjack!

Eh, don't feel too bad. I'm 32 and I just moved out (for the second time; first time was for a year) last fall. And I don't even have your excuse...

/unjack thread/

[smileyeagle1021]

yeah, my mother was strict on things like that... if she said I could get 2 games and I said I wanted 3, her response would be, ok, now you can have 1, and if I was stupid enough to say another word about it I'd get none.

oh and the bubblewrapping is really bad, my first year in college there were people who didn't even know how to use an iron... and by that I don't mean they didn't know how to do a proper crease and all that (because I'll be honest, I don't know how to do that every time either ) I mean they didn't know some of the simplest things like you needed to put water in i've had coworkers who know nothing about how to do their own finances without mommy or daddy helping... hell I've had coworkers who never had to worry about doing maintanence on their cars... they've had to ask people where to get oil changes because it always just used to get done for them... the world is going to hell

[Evil Queen]

yeah, my mother was strict on things like that... if she said I could get 2 games and I said I wanted 3, her response would be, ok, now you can have 1, and if I was stupid enough to say another word about it I'd get none.

My Mom was just like that too. Made me into the well adjusted *must... not laugh....* adult *sputters*that I am today!



Oh, damn, couldn't quite make it.

[Apathy]

One of my old friends (and then college roommates) never had a job until his second year after college. Nothing in high school, nothing in all five years of college.

[RetailWorkhorse]

My Mom was just like that too. Made me into the well adjusted *must... not laugh....* adult *sputters*that I am today!



Oh, damn, couldn't quite make it.

Yeah, but Queenie, she also made us pay with our own money.

[Becks]

I can imagine in a few decades that kid being pissed off because his parents are out spending his inheritance.

On basic necessities for themselves in their retirement years.