Posted on 06/19/2006 6:45:15 AM PDT by John Jorsett
You have got to be kidding!! When my brothers were in the military we only heard from them when they were coming home on leave- and several times they just showed up. My oldest brother was in Vietnam and my mother would pack and send a package to him about every 2 weeks or so, he wrote a handful of letters and never called until he was back in the States. He was in the Army 11 years and we saw very little of him until he got out and he and his wife moved about 2 hours away from us. My middle brother was in the Navy and we did not see or hear from him often either while he was in.
I guess these parents don't see their job as teaching their children to be responsible adults. When do they think they should grow up and become independent? I have been feeling sorry for those whose grown children move back in when they are close to retirement and those who end up raising grandchildren, but I am beginning to think they are bringing it on themselves by not letting the children grow up.
You have got to be kidding!! When my brothers were in the military we only heard from them when they were coming home on leave- and several times they just showed up. My oldest brother was in Vietnam and my mother would pack and send a package to him about every 2 weeks or so, he wrote a handful of letters and never called until he was back in the States. He was in the Army 11 years and we saw very little of him until he got out and he and his wife moved about 2 hours away from us. My middle brother was in the Navy and we did not see or hear from him often either while he was in.
I guess these parents don't see their job as teaching their children to be responsible adults. When do they think they should grow up and become independent? I have been feeling sorry for those whose grown children move back in when they are close to retirement and those who end up raising grandchildren, but I am beginning to think they are bringing it on themselves by not letting the children grow up.
I wish I was kidding. Although in today's world with cell phones, e-mail, and all the other stuff I guess it is understandable, but these kids will never fully grow up. It will be very difficult for them if God forbid something happens to the parents. They will be lost for a long time.
I didn't go with my son to his registration, but as I mentioned, my husband did. He's a transfer student, so the academic advisor gave him a sheet with all courses for his major, ticked off the ones he already had, and eventually handed him a list of 6 courses that could be taken this term to fulfill his major, plus the list for the rest of the courses he'll need for the major.
Anyhoo, this is the amazing part to me. He walks over to another desk, hands the person working there the list, and they spit out a schedule for him and the schedule is organized so he gets to take consecutive classes, i.e. time and day. Two back to back classes on Monday, two back to back classes on Tuesday, one class on Wednesday, one class on Thursday...and there you have it. No breaks in the schedule, etc....he knows none of the profs at this time, but I'm sure next term he'll have more knowledge of whose class he wants to be in. And after this term, he can register online, but they must have some sort of computer program now that organizes classes to eliminate "gaps" in your schedule.
Then I would be considered a boomer!!! My dad was drafted at the end of WWII.
Might as well not even cut the umbilical cord...
Would you have been happier with this?
Sometimes I ponder...whether the Baby Boomer generation is the worst crop of people this nation ever produced.
Does this mean that Cindy Sheehan is a Chinook?
She's a lefty, so I'd say she's a Hind (Russian).
Good point.
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