Many of these are not "trends". There have been parents doing these things for generations. 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 17, 18, and 19 have always been problems. It mostly boils down to not seeing your child as an individual with different needs, opinions, tastes, talents, strengths,…Â
#5 My mother worked for a radio station in the 80s that did a Giant Christmas Stocking drawing one year. The stocking was like 6 feet tall and filled with toys and small appliances...some really cool stuff. Secretly, my mom and a co-worker went through all of the submissions and threw…Â
Whenever my wife asks me to hand her a spatula, I have to quote the entire Spatula City commercial from UHF. It annoys the hell out of her and cracks me up. "What better way to say 'I love you' than with a spatula?"
A lot of this isn't new. My kid was in the 8th grade in 2001 and I struggled to get him to do his work. I had tried grounding him, working with him trying to figure out why he was unmotivated, tried rewards, finally, I kept telling him that he would fail and have to repeat 8th grade…Â
Or they could do what a lot of my generation's parents did...neglect us. Hurt yourself, walk it off, here's a bandaid and some super glue; shoes falling apart, here's some tape and glue; school trip, don't go; want something extra, get a job like baby sitting or mowing lawn; want…Â
#21. Having been the assistant to someone who graduated from Harvard for the last 6 years, I fully agree! Brilliant, but no common sense. And she is one of my favorite people.
I spent age 12-18 in a small town in New Mexico. I'm in my 50s now and live in the Pacific Northwest. A few months ago, I went to the doctor and had to have an EKG done. The tech who did it and were talking and it turns out that she lived in the same small town at the same time I…Â
Growing up, my mother would not allow us to touch the holiday decorations, let alone help put them up. She needed everything to be picture perfect. Needless to say, Christmas was fraught with stress every year as we had to tiptoe around everything. I have no happy holiday memories.…Â
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