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 Posted: 12/27/04 - 14:54 Post subject: Instead of sending them back...
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Posted: 12/27/04 - 14:56 Post subject:
Oh the pride, they are from houston... 
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Posted: 12/27/04 - 14:57 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | Oh the pride, they are from houston... |
Hey. The proceeds went to their local church to buy a new heater. 
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Posted: 12/27/04 - 14:59 Post subject:
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Hey. The proceeds went to their local church to buy a new heater. |
Something they could prolly use now. 
If Pops got three Nintendos, the boys must have done something pretty bad pretty quick to lose them. Otherwise, why buy them in the first place?
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Posted: 12/27/04 - 15:02 Post subject:
This just struck me as being funny because when I grew up my mother would say, "I'm taking all your presents back...I'm taking them back...I'm taking them back...", as if she were a broken record. Now the threat is so high-tech..."I'm selling them on Ebay...I'm selling them on Ebay...I'm selling them on Ebay..."
Taking anything back will become obsolete in this generation.
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Posted: 12/27/04 - 15:03 Post subject:
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Taking anything back will become obsolete in this generation.
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Especially when it's all bought online anyway,...
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Posted: 12/27/04 - 15:04 Post subject:
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Especially when it's all bought online anyway,... |
True...so true!
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Posted: 12/27/04 - 15:06 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | Something they could prolly use now. |
Sure, now, and then never again until the next time it snows here, in say, 2039. 
no no, it was a nice gesture
Also, it should be noted that they live in Pasa-get down-dena, TX, home of Gilley's and "Urban Cowboy"
Everybody now: Lookin for love in all the wrong places, looking for love in too many places, searchin her eyes, lookin for traces, of what I'm dreamin of....
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Posted: 12/27/04 - 15:08 Post subject:
But seriously though, (can you bring down the houselights for me please?) this is the latest in a series of news stories about parents publicly admitting their kids are rotten, as though they have no control over this. If anything, I would expect the parents to be a little more ashamed, less public. But, again too, I don't have kids, I just have nieces and nephews who I wish their parents had done this, so what do I know?
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Posted: 12/27/04 - 15:20 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | But seriously though, (can you bring down the houselights for me please?) this is the latest in a series of news stories about parents publicly admitting their kids are rotten, as though they have no control over this. If anything, I would expect the parents to be a little more ashamed, less public. But, again too, I don't have kids, I just have nieces and nephews who I wish their parents had done this, so what do I know? |
True..so true.
However, what's even worse in my book are those parents out there who "claim" their children are all perfect in every single way. It's sick and causes even greater problems for the kids. I hear parents all the time telling how wonderful, beautiful and perfect their kids are. Then I'm expected to treat them as being perfect and make exceptions to the rules for them in my classroom.
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Posted: 12/27/04 - 15:29 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | But seriously though, (can you bring down the houselights for me please?) this is the latest in a series of news stories about parents publicly admitting their kids are rotten, as though they have no control over this. If anything, I would expect the parents to be a little more ashamed, less public. But, again too, I don't have kids, I just have nieces and nephews who I wish their parents had done this, so what do I know? |
That's progress, of sorts.....isn't it? If they can admit their kids are rotten, maybe eventually they'll see that it was their behavior that caused their rotten kids and change it. Sounds like this was a first good, albeit pretty desperate, step. Much better than Marcie's scenario. "Not my kid"
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Posted: 12/27/04 - 15:32 Post subject:
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That's progress, of sorts.....isn't it? If they can admit their kids are rotten, maybe eventually they'll see that it was their behavior that caused their rotten kids and change it. Sounds like this was a first good, albeit pretty desperate, step. Much better than Marcie's scenario. "Not my kid" |
I hate the attitude that they have nothing to do with how their kids turned out, that they have no control. But yes, compared to Nole's description (which is my BIL with my rotten niece to a T) it is better, at least they are rewarding the brattiness as my BIL is.
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Posted: 12/27/04 - 22:19 Post subject:
I didn't find the story funny, I found it kind of sad. Short of my daughter becoming a mass murderer (or similar type criminal), I don't think she could misbehave so badly for me to deny her Christmas gifts while she is still of impressionable age. (adult children who are ungrateful and rude are excluded from this rule).
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Posted: 12/28/04 - 10:36 Post subject:
Along the same line, GMA reported this morning that the parents on strike (who are still on strike) have found that their kids aren't behaving any better now that they are living on the front lawn. No sh!t!? 
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