Dear Bill O’Reilly,
I have advice for you. Move to the country, way out far. No television, no cell phones, get some critters to keep your kids busy, and home school. Reading the classics will help, though they will moan endlessly.
You, on the other hand, will keep your sanity and your kids will grow up right.
With regards, Satin Doll
:) my stepfathers first wife played the school teacher in this movie.
If my teenagers were werewolves, they could go out at night and hunt squirrels and rabbits. Then we’d save some grocery money.
“Teenagers are subjected to (and some participate in) incredibly destructive behavior online.”
Their offline behavior isn’t much different.
What is it with kids wearing shorts and flip-flops in the winter now? No one EVER did this when I was a kid...you bundled up to keep warm. Can they not go a few months without showing skin?
Come to think of it, I see adults doing it, too.
What is it with kids wearing shorts and flip-flops in the winter now? No one EVER did this when I was a kid...you bundled up to keep warm. Can they not go a few months without showing skin?
Come to think of it, I see adults doing it, too.
“Kids today are growing up at warp speed”
Kids are growing, but not up. I fear the internet complusion/addictiob/obsession (Beware the FOMO syndrome: fear of missing out) retards development on all levels.
Bill:
Those ‘hand-held’ devices those teenagers are carrying are bought for them by their PARENTS!!! Surprise!!
Parents won’t tell their little darlings NO at any time from their emergence out of the birth canal to college graduation. NOT GOOD.
They are creating monsters—who think they are so self-important that they have to be talking every single minute of every single day and telling others what they ate for breakfast!!!
This is totally insane!!
I have 3 brothers. Since I left the family home at 18-—55 years ago, I don’t have a clue what they eat—for any single meal of the day. If you asked me to prepare a menu for them for one month, I couldn’t do that. I just don’t know their preferences. AND THEY DON”T KNOW MINE!!!!
NOR SHOULD THEY!!!
The trivia and tripe that the holders of those electronic devices seem to think is so damn important is just plain garbage...
You could do yourself and your daughter a big favor~~~~
Get rid of all those electronic umbilical cords. She only gets to keep the computer for school and you can block many websites she shouldn’t be experimenting with!!!
Spend some real time with her.
Go to a working cattle ranch for a vacation for at least 2 weeks & find out where your food comes from and how hard those ranchers work to put that steak on your restaurant plate.
Hike down to the bottom and back out of the Grand Canyon. Smell some fresh air and SEE parts of this country—from up close & NOT from the window of a 747.
Have her spend a summer at a farm owned & run by a relative or a good friend.
When is the last time you and she volunteered at a soup kitchen in the poorer parts of NYC??? HOw about helping some of the people who lost everything in the hurricane??? Pick one family or 2—stand up and purchase some of the basics they lost- blankets, sheets-towels-toothbrushes-soap-jeans-coats for them as a Christmas gift and make her use some of her own money to do this.
Hell- I live on less than $13,000 a year, but every time I make soup with a turkey carcass, I give one quart container to the retired man across the street. That is 3 meals for him, with bread. Not much, but something.
I certainly am not crying about not being able to be attached to a dozen or so electronic umbilical cords.
Get out of the rare air of New York City or Washington and actually learn how this country operates!!!
Meanwhile—stand up and BE A PARENT!!! Quit letting those teenagers guilt you into anything!!! It is YOUR job to be a parent and grow her into a responsible adult. We already have enough ‘Occupy Protestors” who are trust fund recipients.
You both will benefit from the experience!!!