WELL SAID! Time is MONEY, but you cant substitute money(material things) for time... especially when it comes to your kids..

 

It takes time and effort to build a successful career.

It takes time and effort to raise a successful child.

There are exceptions, but most people can only handle one at a time.

 

Well said Nate... in response to the OP's original comments, I agree that this "trend" is running rampant these days, but there's really no sense in wasting time worrying about how ungrateful some of these kids are. Some of us get everything we want handed to us, but most of us have to work very hard for what we want. It's not fair, but that's life. No sense in getting worked up about these spoiled kids who don't appreciate anything they've been given. I think your time would be better spent focusing on making yourself a more successful person... forget those losers

 

whats to say? i have to agree that the crappiness of the kids might be due to both everything being handed to them AND the parents working excessively to have successful carreers... really sad
BTW: my s2000 was bought for me by my parents. dad was my advocate. he wants to set up me and my sister for success. not that things are being handed to us on a silver platter.

 

i should probably add that i intend to pay him back for my S

 

yea, you're right. i shouldn't worry about it... and i'm actually very grateful that my parents took the time to teach me right from wrong, and how to appreciate things.

i think the reason it irks me so much is because i really like this lady. she's my friend, i mean i talk to her on a daily basis. she's fun to talk to, she's bright and witty, she's successful and independent... and then i find out who her daughter is, and her daughter is just so, bleh. but yea, you guys are right, she probably did make her career her priority over her kids.

 

With the "rat race" of today's world it seems like parents are more focused on either their career's or themselves.... they don't want to be bothered with kids.

I took a year off of work 6 years ago when my kids were 6 & 4 and it was awful trying to hang out with idiot soccer mom's..... they were totally fake, somehow put up with kids who yelled at them, hit them, etc.... "mommy doesn't like that"....

I grabbed my son's fat face when he called his grandmother a PEE PEE and that was the last time he did it..... it sucked as a dad, but it solved the problem and there was no lifelong emotion to it.

i am guilty of spoiling my kids with "stuff", but I have reeled it back in to a normal level..... we had a gocart at age 4, Suzuki 50 at age 6 and a 4 wheeler at at about age 9......i have learned.... we do not have a PS3......just run of the mill stuff now...

Lots of parents say "don't you dare"... then the little porky kid eats the M&M's anyway and the parent rolls their eyes and says "kids".... **** that... knock those M&M's the hell out of their mouth and they will learn who is in control.

Who knows how my kids will be as young adults, but i am pretty happy with them so far....they mostly know when to act stupid, smartelicky and when not to

 

OMG... i HATE when parents do that. they tell their kid a million times in the same tone not to do something and then when the kid does it, they don't do anything about it. sometimes they make some half-ass attempt to scold them. they do that over and over... and then the kid turns into a friggin' monster asshole child.

i knew from a very small age that when my mom said something, SHE MEANT IT. i never questioned my mom's authority... and to this day, if my mom yells at me and i think it's total bullshit, i hold my tongue until i know she's calmed down enough that she won't chase me around the house slapping me upside the ass with her slipper if i open my trap.

 

Excess is what ruins everyone. When you don't know how to set a limit, you lose it. Parents who are successful usually spoil their kids giving them everything they want, add in a lack of being around, and you've got a kid that doesn't know limits.

 

umm i have a very successful dad and I am not at alll ungrateful no way.. i'm in college and i'm pouring my blood in guts into everything i do...yet again i'm smarter than most so i have to disagree w/ cunit BUT the main reason i ended up this way is because i grew up having a ghetto childhood, I was a bully in school an ass too many but one day I decided i didnt wanna be the deuchebag and i changed completely...anyway its not really the parents fault because you control who you are in the end, not the way you were raised and I knew if i stayed an asshole my whole life I'd end up suffering once i had to move out into the real world on my own.