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If I had parents like these, I'd be institutionalized by now!
1 posted on 11/10/2006 7:13:51 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I would automatically reject any job candidate who brought parents into the situation. What happens if those parents die? People have to stand on their own feet.


2 posted on 11/10/2006 7:19:08 AM PST by seacapn
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Hmmm ~ you gotta' understand that when the parents have $100,000 and up invested in the kid's degree, they have a serious interest.
3 posted on 11/10/2006 7:20:11 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I would too, for murder.


4 posted on 11/10/2006 7:21:31 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This explains the infantile results of the last election.

People perceive the Democrats will "take care" of them.

What the hell happened to this country?

I can remember being resentful of my mother trying to help me cross the street when I was 4 years old.

5 posted on 11/10/2006 7:23:04 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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I can't wait to do this to my kids! If they're embarrassed by me now in elementary school, wait'll I go on job interviews with them!


6 posted on 11/10/2006 7:23:07 AM PST by SittinYonder (Why has my tagline gone all haywire?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Every American parent needs to like to George Carlin's "F#$k the Children." Children are getting entirely too much attention: "Parents are enrolling their kids into college before the know which end of the playpen smells the worst."

There is entirely too much meaningless structure these "cell phone" parents are forcing on children: "You need a helmet for everything except jerking off!"

The one requirement parents should make of their children is for them to look at the clouds and daydream--EVERY DAY FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR!!! Let them think for themselves.


9 posted on 11/10/2006 7:25:12 AM PST by xc1427 (It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...Midnight Oil (Power and the Passion))
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If I got a call asking me why "Jeffie" didn't get the job or promotion, I'd reply "Because his parents don't know or care when they cross the line, and he's afraid to tell them. He's lucky I haven't recided to replace him yet."


13 posted on 11/10/2006 7:28:41 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I know this school well and I find the students as a whole to be remarkably self-sufficient. It was at one time the National Farm School and there are still a lot of farm families who send their children here. They can major in small or large anaimals or different types of horticulture. These kids who grow up on farms learn to work at a young age. My guess is that these are the non-farm majors. Criminal justice is a big major there now, among others.


14 posted on 11/10/2006 7:29:36 AM PST by twigs
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one father accompanied his daughter, handed out her resume and answered most of the questions the recruiters were asking the young woman.

I would love to ask that man if he brought his resume and was interested in a job. Tell him that he seems to have something on the ball even if his daughter is a complete waste. (No, I wouldn't hire him. I would just want to publicly embarrass him and his daughter.)

15 posted on 11/10/2006 7:30:06 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Hey Kerry, What part of showing heels and ass is a winning strategy in Iraq?)
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To: Fury

Ping for later read...


16 posted on 11/10/2006 7:30:35 AM PST by Fury
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I get lambasted by my children's teachers for not hovering over every assignment. I told them that if I hovered over their assignments in the fourth and fifth grade, I will be having to hover in the 10th and 11th grade. Why bother starting when I refuse to continue it.

So I guess I'm just a bad mom.


17 posted on 11/10/2006 7:30:47 AM PST by Southerngl
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So would mommy and daddy be sharing a cube with their kid when they get the job? Would they "supervise" their kid's out of town business trips? Come on! These aren't kids. They are adults who are going to be spending a lot of money on therapy because they don't know how to handle themselves without mommy and daddy talking for them and holding their hand in difficult situations. I thought that tough situations like interviewing were supposed to be character building, not coddling.


18 posted on 11/10/2006 7:33:14 AM PST by kcbc2001
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Wow! So they have a name for these kinds of characters. One of my husband's ex-AF buddies is a "Helicopter Dad", and will be till the day he dies. It's creepy...but then so are all three of his "kids"(ages 20-27). Mama? She likes her vino too much to care.
19 posted on 11/10/2006 7:34:27 AM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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" I'd be institutionalized by now!"

She wrote my resume, gave me career advice, and sat in on my job interviews but she wouldn't give me a Pepsi ... just one Pepsi ...

21 posted on 11/10/2006 7:36:00 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Another hellish condition allowed by the invention of the cell phone.


22 posted on 11/10/2006 7:36:55 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Dancing through life like a street mime with tourettes syndrome.)
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Recently, I have seen this creep in with graduate students I work with, especially the daughters. The ones whose parents get involved don't always have the best reputation as it is. I have wondered out loud what will happen when they get jobs. Now we know...


23 posted on 11/10/2006 7:37:23 AM PST by PrincessB
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
a term coined for those who have hovered over their children's lives from kindergarten to college.

Megalomania and psychotic is another description.
25 posted on 11/10/2006 7:39:20 AM PST by Vision ("As a man thinks...so is he." Proverbs 23:7)
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Just remember, all the perfect children of FR are competing against these dolts...means more $$$ and opportunities for them...


27 posted on 11/10/2006 7:43:13 AM PST by dakine
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I have two sons 18 and 20. They both know I am there as emergency backup, but they are adults. They can ask my advice, and do, occasionally, but they are adults. It's there decision about school, work, where to live, what to wear, when to get their hair cut.

I'm supposed to hover? My youngest wouldn't have let me hover if I had wanted to...


28 posted on 11/10/2006 7:45:52 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: jan in Colorado

ping


31 posted on 11/10/2006 7:54:04 AM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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