I've noticed the new snowflake parental move is the "my kid has to go this certain school system". For a long time you just went to school where you lived. Plenty of very successful people were raised that way. Like the old saying "bloom where you're planted". Those people have zero faith in their kids abilities.

Now little Timmy has to go to "insert name here" to not become a complete retard in life.

I’m going to disagree on this one. They have zero faith in the public school system - most of them suck. Can’t blame someone for wanting the best education for their kid.

Big fan of school choice.

I’m like a couple of you guys. Wife got a boyfriend and I had to move out of the house. Judge said so. I got to see the kids every other weekend and 2 weeks in the summer. Yep, paid child support. They did everything possible to ruin mine and my childrens relationship. That worked for awhile but finally the daughters figured out who their real dad was. By then, they were almost grown. We now have a good relationship.

Bottom line? I didn’t get to be involved with raising my children. I obey the law but have very little respect for the court system or the law in general.

Ole Donald is a regular ole KVD. Bet you traded some labor for some spooks with a marker or some worm extract didn’t you?


Donald a legend on his own mind.

Tend to agree with you. The problem is the schools and the fact that the "retards" or problem kids in class get all of the attention. Not to mention, kids today deal with a whole host of other BS that we never had to deal with. The liberal agenda is front and center in many schools.

Homeschool...

What my observation has been living in a semi-affluent suburban town is that the moms have a much more influential role in the kids lives. It wasn’t like that when I was a kid. Mom was there to be a support system in the home and do mom things. Dads taught them man things. We are mostly two parent homes in the area that I live but the moms are much more involved in steering their boys than the dads. Moms are teaching their kids to be their version of what they think a man is. It’s a giant community of mommas boys. On the sports teams, the moms are the ones pushing the kids, not the dads. The moms are also the ones acting like the world is over if the boys are caught vaping, drinking, etc. Little Timmy gets hurt, mommy is there. They won’t give them the opportunity to toughen up.

So they grow up, not knowing much adversity and when they face it, they act like most moms do, they break down, get “in their feels” and their world collapses.

Very carefully this morning, and using no judgement, I discussed with my daughter the issue of kids having problems moving into a world that has stress, from their stress free world. And with subtlety, I brought her kids’ stress problems into it. She said she realized what I was talking about and had decided to push them out of the nest. They are to finish college and then have a life - their own life and not life with mom and dad. Very interesting, and I was glad to hear it. Let’s see how this works out.

She was calling to ask me what tires I recommended for her daughter’s car. I asked why she needed new tires, since the kid is going to leave for college in NYC (Pace Uni). And she said that she was afraid that the kid would get bad homesick and want to come home, and then she’d need her car. Well Geez, that sure doesn’t sound like being pushed out of the nest. Talking out of both sides of her mouth. Still in her helicopter…

Stay tuned. What was it Paul Harvey used to say? “For the rest of the story”?

Properly maintaining a car is just good practice...You never know when some idiot is going to run a light and hit you...and if you're fortunate enough to have a car that's not being used while your kid is in college...well, you want it to be ready to go.

I remember going to my first viewing/funeral at the age of 4. It was my mom's aunt...I can still recall peeking around the corner of the doorway and seeing my great-aunt's coffin...and my mom and other family members crying. I say that to say this. When my cousin died in 2002, my sister did not have her then 10 and 11 year old children attend the funeral of our cousin because she didn't want it to scar them. I buried my 10 day old nephew when I was 12...So, yeah. I get wanting to protect your kids from bad things...but by doing so, you're not teaching them how to deal with those things when they happen...because bad things always freaking happen.

Funny you mention it…I can remember my great grandmothers funeral…I was 4 years old.

I used to sit in my dads lap at that same age and watch Tour of Duty, Mad Max and all other kinds of shows. Aside from explicit nudity we were not shielded from much, especially violence on tv.