Sonja Solomon wrote: > >I don't know if this is true with the rest of the world, but this is what I >see everyday on my own campus. Another note I guess that goes along with >Mat.... some of you may have seen the article on the St. Thomas Moore >students' parents pushing for the bill that allows them to park in handicap >zones at school. Parents raising their children to be Spoiled Rotten BRATS. >It comes in waves. We are hoping for an updraft of quality. Opps, Nuf >said. > >Sonja > >
Yeah - the generation coming up now is going to have some problems when they reach adulthood and they realize that the world is not waiting for them on a silver platter. I see WAY too much of this. Parents are not being parents anymore. My father couldn't control me in my later teen years, but he never quit trying. Now, I realize I would have been much better off if I would have listened to him. He did way more than many of the parents that are out there today. Now, all parents want to do is sue, sue, sue. Parents sue if there kids are held for detention. They sue if their spoiled rotten brats are scolded in the classroom "because their kid was mentally traumatized." What the hell is that kid going to do when he screws up at work and his boss chews him out? Correct! Sue.... Instead of taking responsibility for his actions, he will sue. America is going to be in bad shape if these spoiled kids become the majority. The point is that none of the parents today are teaching responsibility for ones actions. They are teaching that it is always the other one's fault. Well... maybe not all, but far too many. This brings me to another subject - All of the textbooks that are being rewritten so that they are politically correct. History is being rewritten so that noone is "offended." There is a book that I heard about the other day - I can't remmeber the title - that talks about all of the facts that have been changed, and all of the history that has been removed because people claim it is offensive. I heard some excerpts from teh book on the radio and it is absolutely infuriating what they are doing to history. I am not sure if it is really as bad as it seems sometimes, but if it is, we are in trouble in 10-15 years. Shannon >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Will Lowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 12:20 AM >Subject: Re: [brlug-general] [OT] was -- humorous interview with Bill >Gateson Linux > > > > >>Wel Mat, >>I believe every generations children are looked upon as inadequate by >> >> >their > > >>seniors. I know that my generation was and I am probably one of the oldest >>posters here. It is just human nature for one to see the inexperience of >>youth as more than it was when they were young. And the miss-interptation >>is not just of the old to the young. I believe that Mark Twain expressed >> >> >it > > >>best when he said "When I was 16 I thought that my parents were the >> >> >dumbest > > >>people in the world but when I became 21 I was amazed at how much they had >>learned." I for one have no wish that the youth of today should experience >>the horrors war as a right of passage to enlightment. I think that you >>(collectively) will do just fine with your stewardship of the world. >> >>Will Lowe >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Mat Branyon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <[email protected]> >>Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 11:48 PM >>Subject: Re: [brlug-general] [OT] was -- humorous interview with Bill >>Gateson Linux >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>General mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
