....SPOILED by your parents?

Most kids are spoiled a bit.....probably OK as long as it's not excessive and messes up their value system

What do you think? Do you treat your children as you were treated?

 

I was not spoiled, by any means, as a kid. My two teenagers are spoiled. I started to give more details but I don't want any grief for how we are raising our kids. Let's just say, as a kid we had little money and mom and dad weren't happy with each other, and poop flows down hill. Now my kids are rewarded for getting straight As or close to it, and not doing drugs. We know we are spoiling them but they are good kids too. We'll see how they turn out and then decide if we over did it or not. I think they will be fine as I've been home with them their whole lives and I have my finger on their pulses, so to speak.

 

R-O-T-T-E-N!

And the worst part is I don't have any kids of my own to take it out on. I was what would now be termed ADHD, so I got even with my parents by making their lives miserable.

Ahhh, the memories........



Gerry

 

As a child, were you......taught to work for what I want

 

My father lost his own father at age 12, and was raised by his mother and 2 sisters. He was 23 when the stock market crashed in 1929. Imagine spending your 20's and early 30's in the Great Depression? Little wonder that he made his two kids work for whatever they wanted in life.

Nevertheless, he gave me a lot of moral support....helped me with my newspaper route....loved me a lot. My graduation from an Ivy League college was one of his proudest moments.
Yes, he lived vicariously through me....achieving some things that he never had a chance at

He died 6 months after I started my own business in 1986....never knew that it became very successful and created my financial security in the process.

 

Nope...I wasn't spoiled at all. Had a fairly typical middle-class upbringing, except for being able to live in France for three years, which was wonderful and influenced my life a great deal. Like Gerry, no kids, so not sure how I would have raised them. But I think pretty well...it is harder today to instill the values we grew up with and make them stick.

 

No, lived with a single mom (when it was not that common) raising 2 kids.

 

Deprived, but not neglected.

I

 

You folks are all entirely too normal.
I was most definitely not spoiled. I grew up in an alcoholic household (stepfather), so I spent most of my youth walking on eggshells.
Oh well, what doesn't kill us only makes us stronger.

Dean

 

Not spoiled, but loved a great deal.