My brother's oldest son has two sons. Those kids have everything. They do not walk into a store that they are not wanting the latest toy, video game, whatever. I have told my brother and sister in law that those two kids have so much stuff they do not know what they have. You name it, they have it. Play with it a week or so and bam, it is in a box, in a closet, in the room downstairs. Recently my sister in law filled up six large boxes of stuff that they no longer played with. She took it down stairs in their house and told them she was giving it to the Salvation Army. The kids went nuts. YOU CANNOT GIVE AWAY OUR STUFF!!! When asked the last time they played with it, they could not remember. They had even forgotten about some of the stuff that she had boxed up. She took it away and you would have thought the world ended. Oh, well until the next day, when her daughter in law took them to Toys R Us and bought them over $100 worth of crap.
Most kids I know today are exactly the same way.
I have to agree with the kids here. It WAS their stuff if it was given to them. Parents have no right to give away things that don’t belong to them. Instead of the parents stealing, they should have asked the kids to sit down and pick out 5 things to give away. Then repeat that again every 2 weeks. When parents simply take things that don’t belong to them, it makes the kids more selfish, not less. This was very bad parenting.
I never knew it was so valuable. I've been just flushing it down the toilet.
What's your brother's phone number? I'll make him a great deal.
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I adopted that same shopping policy a number of years ago after a relative coaxed me into going with her to an early morning after Thanksgiving sale. I understand how it happened that this poor man was trampled to death, and the young woman miscarried her baby. There isn’t an item on earth worth the chaos I experienced that day, and it was apparently much less chaotic than at this Long Island Wal-Mart.
As a matter of fact, I didn’t even buy anything that morning, and most, if not all, of the items that interested me were still on sale at the same price later in the day and the days following.
Re: your brother’s kids, I’d bet that is repeated in most families across this country. I know it’s the case with my sister’s grandkids and with my S-I-L’s grandkids. It’s maddening.
When poverty in the U.S. is mentioned, I say it is a poverty of want rather than a poverty of need when it comes to material things, in most cases. They see it - they want it...whether or not they need it, and they never get enough to keep them from wanting more.