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'I am bitterly, bitterly disappointed': retired naval officer's email to children in full
The UK Telegraph ^ | Nov 18, 2012

Posted on 11/18/2012 6:52:14 AM PST by KeyLargo

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To: KeyLargo
Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. Proverbs 22:6.

Sorry, admiral, it your fault. Parenting is not for the weak of heart. Fun to make but hard to raise.

41 posted on 11/18/2012 9:20:06 AM PST by April Lexington (Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: KeyLargo

What did the older generation teach their children? Not much. Not much at all. They were on autopilot. Now the older generations want to complain. Too late, gramps. You had you chance for over 50 years and you sat on your collective asses. The younger generations can barely tie their own shoes as no skills whatsoever were passed down. Life was good after WWII so no one bothered to raise those little suburbian darlings. No one bothered to teach them.


42 posted on 11/18/2012 9:25:24 AM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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To: KeyLargo

the printer repair man was a spoof, in the photo he’s wearing an ar15.com t-shirt


43 posted on 11/18/2012 9:28:36 AM PST by Jeff Vader
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To: 2010Freeper

these kids are not too bad. I have a neice on her fifth.


44 posted on 11/18/2012 9:38:04 AM PST by goat granny
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To: dagogo redux
I was Navy too, in the late 80s. Used the GI Bill and some loans to put myself through school. I slept on the floor for the first 3 months of gainful employment when I finally finished school. I didn't even have a futon (at first.)

LOL... we sound like the four Yorkshiremen. "Luxury. We slept in a hole in the ground..." "Oh? That were paradise, compared to us. At least you had a hole! We slept in the lake!"

45 posted on 11/18/2012 9:40:12 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: KeyLargo

Clints movies all have a line or two that become classic. LIke”dying no way to live son”,


46 posted on 11/18/2012 9:43:36 AM PST by goat granny
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To: cubreporter

Memo to Maria Howdoyousolveaproblemlike:

HA!

Your stroppy old sea dog Captain Von Trapp wasn’t the only one with a no-nonsense parenting approach.

But I bet our one doesn’t sing.

England 1, Austria 0.

You’re not singing
You’re not singing
You’re not singing anymore!
You’re not si-i-inging anymore!


47 posted on 11/18/2012 9:47:13 AM PST by MalPearce
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To: April Lexington
Having raised three successful kids myself but witnessed their friends' propensities to go astray, I can say that it is very possible for a parent to do everything "right" and still have a kid go wrong.

In this email the "children" are all adults, with children of their own. Like many, by adolescence they probably became more susceptible to peer culture, societal influence, even educational malpractice, than parental guidance. They have been making their own decisions for years now, apparently choosing poorly despite parental efforts to provide guidance, yet expecting their parents to somehow "fix" things for them.

The father here should have set his limits and expressed his expectations years ago, and maybe the wayward "kids" would have woken up sooner. But then hindsight is always so easy, isn't it.

48 posted on 11/18/2012 10:04:07 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Marie
Here’s the link:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9686219/I-am-bitterly-bitterly-disappointed-retired-naval-officers-email-to-children-in-full.html

More background here.

Here is daughter Emily Crews-Montes, who is married to a French doctor:


49 posted on 11/18/2012 10:08:19 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: bolobaby
How did this make the news?

According to another UK paper, daughter Emily asked her father to publish it:

The family feud burst into the public domain when Nick Crews published the email at the request of daughter Emily Crews-Montes, 40 – one of his targets – who now lives in France [married to a doctor] and works as a translator for a publisher. She is the only one of the siblings still speaking to her parents.

50 posted on 11/18/2012 10:15:42 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: A_perfect_lady

The country is screwed.


51 posted on 11/18/2012 10:24:31 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: KeyLargo

These geniuses didn’t think they were studying for something that wouldn’t pay enough to pay off their loans????

87k in loans for a printer repairman? sounds more like 87k for a few years of partying. He ought to be embarrassed for being so stupid.


52 posted on 11/18/2012 10:26:29 AM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - both were a coup d'etat.)
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To: cubreporter

Each year I grow in respect for my parents as I realize what they did for me, many times with neither of us knowing that teaching was taking place at the time.

If parents aren’t teaching their very youg child those habits and morals we can be sure the rest of the world will teach them its habits and morals.


53 posted on 11/18/2012 10:52:05 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: tx_eggman

That’s how I got it.


54 posted on 11/18/2012 10:54:02 AM PST by Roccus
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To: KeyLargo
No jobs in her “feild”? Should she sell drugs or her body? For certainty she can't sell her spelling ability tho a college senior.
Demand a refund of the 40k.
55 posted on 11/18/2012 11:00:22 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Aria
87k in loans for a printer repairman? sounds more like 87k for a few years of partying. He ought to be embarrassed for being so stupid.

LOL...check out his shirt and ballcap. This guy is obviously making fun of the OWS idiots!

56 posted on 11/18/2012 11:10:01 AM PST by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: KeyLargo

he is a military officer with speaking to his own kids as if they were his subordinates on a ship. is there any wonder that they feel alienated from him? they make life decisions without his advice ; does anyone here wonder why they do that?

he has been doing this for many years. it’s also likely that he’s a very angry and violent man.


57 posted on 11/18/2012 11:37:37 AM PST by gaijin
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To: KeyLargo

This is the inevitable result of selfish decisions, which is at the heart of the “liberal” mentality. And who really suffers the most from this liberal mentality? The children of course, the exact same group of people that liberals portend to support with all of their selfish policies.

JoMa


58 posted on 11/18/2012 2:17:10 PM PST by joma89
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To: dagogo redux

You certainly have my admiration.

Our country seems to be having fewer and fewer people like you. Damn.


59 posted on 11/18/2012 6:53:54 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: joma89

Daughter defends former submarine captain who told children he was ‘bitterly disappointed’ in them

The daughter of a former submarine captain who told his children he was “bitterly disappointed” in them has defended her father.

Yesterday one of his daughters admitted that she had needed a “kick up the backside”. Emily Crews-Montes, 40, said: “He wouldn’t retract what he said, and nor should he. In no way would I ask him to apologise. Fundamentally, I couldn’t have a great quarrel with what he wrote. I accept it was too harsh. But if you live in France, you’re used to being judged harshly.”

Mrs Crews-Montes now lives in Brittany with her second husband, a French surgeon, and three children aged 18 months, two, and 12.

She said her father’s email did not upset her because she had already begun to turn her life around when she received it in February. She had set up a business and had started translating a French self-help book into English.

“I had already done what he told me to do. I had already given myself a kick up the backside.” She admitted spending “many years underperforming”, partly because her father’s uncompromising stance left her with little self-confidence.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9686721/Daughter-defends-former-submarine-captain-who-told-children-he-was-bitterly-disappointed-in-them.html


60 posted on 11/19/2012 7:19:42 AM PST by KeyLargo
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