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Earthmother

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 07:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's a case of young people today not knowing how to live without. They have so much that they think if they are deprived of one thing they are somehow being picked on.

Cell phones, e-mail, and text messaging have replaced "you have until 8:00 and then you have to get off the phone."

100 Cable TV channels in their bedrooms have replaced "family tv hour" and then you go to bed."

Video games have replaced socializing with other people in a hands on game of monopoly where you speak to each other. If you get a chance to see the video game "Grand Theft Auto" it explains a lot

I have approximately 80 teens come through my classroom a day and very rarely do they have less than $20 on them.

Parents are buying kids $180-$200 shoes

Many of these people grow up having no idea what it's like to have to decide if you can afford a ten dollar pair of shoes from Payless and buy groceries too.

Many children grow up with their moral values being taught by telvision. This greedy generation has been getting worse every year.

If you think these two are bad, wait 10 years..

Wendo

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 07:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yippeee! Another thread about Jun and Ali that points out yet another fault about them. Woo hoo! Bring it on! LOL!


Earthmother, don't be knockin' my cell phone and Palm handheld, ya hear!

Gidget

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 07:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wendo, you have to admit, they do provide a lot of faults to highlight.

Fabnsab

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 07:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree with everything you wrote, Earthmother.I have watched my sister do this with my niece's and it is so disheartening because we weren't brought up that way.

When my 12 yr old niece stays with me for a few weeks, she has more money in her pocket than me. My sister gives her money for the trip but my niece never spends it on things like park admission. She goes to the mall with my other sister, spends it all at Limited Too the first weekend, and is broke for the rest of the time. I wish after doing this with 2 kids, my sister would realize just to send the money to us. Its never meant for a shopping spree. And I am made to be a bad aunt if I say anything.

I was taught to appreciate everything and to expect nothing.

Wendo

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 08:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gidget, oh, based on the this board alone, it certainly appears so.

Though, I'd like to see how some would react under the same circumstances. None of us have walked in the HG's shoes.

Gidget

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 08:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
No we have not,Wendo. I would love to but I am not interested in being the token old person nor am I interested in parading around the world in my bikini with people patiently spending their precious gift of life waiting to catch me naked to post on the Internet.

Crossfire

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 08:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This is nothing new. Every generation says the same thing. Doing with more, or less is not a reflection of good or bad.

I see no reason for kids in this day and age to be limited to hopscotch, and letter writing.

Earthmother

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 08:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wendo, My sons had cell phones before I did (I usually don't want to be found..lol) But we didn't buy the phones for them. If they wanted them they had to get a job and buy their own. If they wanted to drive, they had to be able to afford the insurance.

I remember the time my oldest was about 16 and said to me "I'm the poorest kid at my school" because we would only give him lunch money, and I told him "Drug dealers don't like poor kids, so this is our way of protecting you." They got what they needed and extra if they earned it, but it was never just handed over. It must have worked because they are grateful for anything that is given to them and they don't think they should get something for nothing.

I don't see why these girls think they should get more than what they are getting...

Puzzled

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 08:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wendo--don't assume that none of us have been in similar circumstances.

I was brought up in an institution where we had no radio, no TV, no magazines, and gaggy food. We had so many rules that even God would have had a hard time not getting into trouble.

Our lives were run from bells. Bell to wake up, bell to go to breakfast, the only thing they didn't have a bell for was to fart.

We were only allowed two inches of bath water, in a building where the water froze over night. We went to bed so hungry that we used to bleed the radiators for water so we could drink stolen cocoa.

I could go on and on.

Guaranteed--we would have been thrilled to spend 3 mos. in BB, and we still could do it.

Wendo

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 08:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Puzzled, I'm referring to the fact that none of us have been on the Big Brother show.

Puzzled

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 08:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, but some have us have endured worse--for much longer.

Gidget

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 08:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow Puzzled that's a heck of a story. Are you a time traveller? Sounds like you grew up in a Dickens novel.

I'm sorry you had a lousy childhood. I hope adulthood is being much better to you.

Puzzled

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 08:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks, Gidget--yeah, it was pretty Dickensian.

Glad to say that adulthood was much, much bettter, and one of the great bonuses of my childhood is that those of us who grew up together in that hellhole are tight as tight can be. We have a support network that is totally incredible. We so love and nurture each other.

We took all the lousy lemons and made lemonade.

Puzzled

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 08:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sorry, double post.

K9lover1

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 09:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If they are so bored, start counting their money. Pooooor Babies!!

Monalisahi

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 09:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Earth, I agree 100% with you, but I don't follow that rule myself, because I think there is an exception to it. My kids are involved in so many extracurricular activities that they just don't have time for jobs. My opinion, they have all their life to work, and can only do these things while they are young. Now, if they weren't involved, then they would absolutely have to get a job.

And I can cost justify my theory. My daughter will get getting an athletic scholarship to college, saving me money...so it all evens out. My son will probably get an academic and/or music scholarship.

Not that they are entirely off the hook, they do have side jobs (babysitting, feeding neighbors horses and dogs occassionally, mowing lawns, etc.) and that gives them their money for going out. So I'm just out money for transportation and clothing. Plus they have responsibilities here at the house and on the farm.

I am a huge fan of extracurricular activities. They keep the kids so busy they don't have time to go out and get into trouble, plus they have to keep their grades up.....takes a lot of nagging off of me....lol.

Earthmother

Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 10:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well now they can take the next three months trolling the malls spending their money..I doubt they will be complaining much about that.

Lurknomore

Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 10:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Earthmother I think your post hit the nail on the head...which goes back to my worn out complaint about lack of diversity in casting. These were a bunch of spoiled brats whose idea of suffering is if they had to wait in line at Starbucks.

Your post reminded me of a day at the mall with my cousins a few years ago. Their dad left a bag with stuff that totalled about 20 bux in it. The youngest daughter said, well it's not worth walking back for that (as if it were 5 cents) and they agreed. I would have RUN. There are times in my life when I have been very comfortable financially and times when I'm suffering (like now with this great economy). But never would I just throw money away like that without trying. They also bought her a jacket that was over $200 bux. I shop the outlets even in good times.

Regretfully so many kids see it that way now...and for the most part these HG's aren't much more than kids.

And while I know this game shouldn't be about need (I still think that's why Eddie won BB1), it sure would be nice to see someone win where the $$ would make a difference. And I still say it boils down to is primarily casting folks who are on to use it as a career stepping stone. Not an adventure, not cause they really want to play this game, not even that they really want the money. They want face time and stardom. I must say though I'm still unclear why Jun is there...or what she really wants. I'm not sure what exactly it is.