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i hate babies too, in fact, i hate kids 2-10 as well and....well...i pretty much hate all kids, all ages.
which is why im getting a vasectomy, so im never stuck with one.
if i ever do want a kid, i'll adopt a 5-6 year-old so i dont have to go through all of that whining, crying, waking up every 20 minutes etc etc etc and still be able to teach them w/e and influence their outlook at the world
nah, i don't hate kids...
it's what their self-righteous, lily-livered, over-protective parents turn them into that i despise. those idiots who try to enhance their children's self-esteem by making them the center of everyone else's universe should take a good look at what they are creating. the battle-cry "it's for the children" is so overused that it is soon to become completely meaningless (hopefully).
as a charter member of DAMM (drunks against mad mothers), i hereby call for the retroactive sterilization of these "parents by default".
i know what you mean, its like a damn battle cry.Quote:
Originally Posted by delusionsofNORMALity
we need to do something about these child worshipping baby boomer human rejects.
I've seen the effects of those parents you speak of- at our college registration, I have actually seen parents accompany their kids- not freshmen, mind you! The poor kids hang back like idiots while mommy does everything for them, and then we wonder why they have trouble growing up!Quote:
Originally Posted by delusionsofNORMALity
On the one hand, I want to communicate as much as possible with my kids, since I didn't have that with my own parents, but I also want to encourage my kids (like I do my students) to develop a sense of personal responsibilty and a solid work ethic. It doesn't help kids to do everything for them obviously, since then they just turn into helpless 20 year old babies. The parents that call their child's college professor and ask that they be given better grades since "She/he tried so hard" should be sent to parenting class like drivers sentenced to traffic class!
It's not the kids that bug me... it's that damned sense of entitlement their yuppie fucking BMW driving loafer wearing asshole parents drill into them from the time they are born... snobbery as a parenting technique... I work at a college too, and I also have worked at a bunch of local restaurants in our lovely multi-college, multi prep school little cute (barf) happy valley. You haven't lived until you've had a fucking 15 year old Deerfield Academy asshole talk down to you because you're dressed up in a kimono spilling salad dressing on his expensive loafers. I blame daddy.
lol!! I can only hope that 15 year old ends up in one of my philosophy classes- call me wicked but that could be fun! As for his dad, he's probably an impotent drunk - :rastasmoke:Quote:
Originally Posted by stinkyattic
Oh yes I get to meet the dads too on parents' weekends. They are the ones with the ruddy complexions who are bitchy to the waitstaff and oh my goodness you never did see the previously-bratty 15 year old act like such a snivelling minion in the presence of his daddy. I guess SOMEONE has to complain about the service, and it is the privilege- no, RIGHT- of the leader of the pack to do so!
personal-responsibility, work-ethic
things of the pastentitlement, elitism
welcome to the brave new world
i don't know nothing about no deerfly academy, but i do see that it's not just the rich that are raising spoiled rodents. we seem to be raising an entire generation of these creatures.
with no conscience and an over-inflated sense of self-worth, they march off into the future.
*tromp tromp tromp*
off they go!
IF you want a great read... 'amusing ourselves to death'... forgot the author... but an interesting look at the responsibility that a media that makes education more a form of entertainment than work you must do to become a productive member of society must take for making these kids think like that. Wow that was a horrible sentence. Soooorry.... =p
can't blame the media, can't blame society, can't even blame the schoolsQuote:
Originally Posted by stinkyattic
we have only ourselves to blame
****heavy sigh****