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Posted on 03/07/2014 3:32:28 PM PST by Kaslin
Great tag line. Reminds me of the Buddhist that went to New York and went to a hot dog stand and ordered one with everything.
“Spare the rod, Spoil the child”.
Libtards seem to have missed that point. More often than not, their kids are turds.
Copy that!
Well, this journalist should proofread better. Elsewhere in the article it says her name is ‘Cummings’.
“A lot of parents demand that their kids be included in every invitation they get. An adult inner party. ‘Well, I’m not coming unless I can bring my kids.’ ‘You what? You want to bring the kids?’”
That has always bugged the hell out of me, too. I’m a childless boomer, and the way my co-workers and friends worshipped and deferred to their kids was unbelievable. Kids “turned out” better when they were to be seen and not heard, and were reminded of their place in the household.
The Baby Boomer Generation ended in, if I’m not mistaken, 1963.
I think her parents are of the generation AFTER the Boomer generation.
A little sensitive today, huh?
And when the Buddhist received the hot dog, he gave the vendor a twenty, and got nothing. When he said he wanted his change, the vendor told him that change must come from within.
I think you’re on to something.
I think the friend’s dad is worth checking into. Before meddling in another family’s private lives, I’d have to be very, very, very sure that I was helping and not making the situation worse.
I’d protect a child from an abusive parent, but not from a parent who has rules the child simply dislikes. That would be every teenager on earth. Setting and enforcing household rules (like curfews or study rules) or failing to provide expensive toys is not abuse.
Not in my house, but then I'm my kids FATHER not their friend.
Read the entire transcript again. Only one time does it say Rachel Cummings, all the other times it says Cunning
Sounds like you got yourself a fine family FRiend.
If the kids are well behaved, then I don’t have any problems that the parents bring them. But what kids are well behaved?
The parents probably don’t want to pay for a babysitter
My youngest brother (born 1947 is a baby boomer and my son (born 1963) is one also
My understanding is that it was her friends’ parents, the ones with whom she is living, that allowed her to drink not her parents. She supposedly had her first drink in the company of the friends and their parents.
She’s dissing her parents, demanding to be supported by them, and she calls THEM selfish? She would never have dared to try this if her parents were Greatest Generation or earlier.
It might be off subject, but Rush might be showing he his getting up in the years with this one. He assumes the parents are baby boomers. The odds are they are not. They are of the next generation after. The majority of parents today of 18 year olds probably graduated HS somewhere in the mid 1980’s, the Reagan years. They were the teenagers at the time the EIB network started. I know, I am a parent of an 15, 17 and 20 year old. I was born in 1962, and I’m one of the older dudes among the dads, most are still in their forties, just a few years older than Derek Jeter. Hell I played college ball against Jamie Moyer and he just retired recently. So after the decades of baby boomer parents Rush hasn’t realized that the baby boomers’ kids are turning 30 or older.
I looked it up. Called Gen X, but there are conflicting definitions of the time span. Generally after Baby Boomers (1945/46 through 1963/1964), so that would be 1964/1965 through 1984/1985. Millenials are the next group after that. That puts my kids in the Gen X group. Don't know what recently born kids are, if the Millenials are a twenty-year span. I consider Gen X somewhat spoiled, and Millenials definitely spoiled as compared to Baby Boomers. Of course, my parents probably thought Boomers were spoiled (ha-ha).
Right. I moved out, on my own at 19. Same with my siblings around the same age. My parents were Greatest Gen. Same with my wife's parents. Soon as she turned 18, she had to pay her parents rent money for the privilege of staying in the house (until she left at 21 when we got married). Her siblings also paid rent. That's just the way it was, you turned 18 and you were expected to behave as an independent adult if you had Greatest Generation parents.
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