hubby said something insightful the other night....
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After the SSs finally went home after a loooong 9 days Thanksgiving vacation and a blowout between DH and I, we went out for a few drinks. I forgot how we started talking about it, I think we were talking about things being different when we were kids versus kids today. DH said "This generaton is going to have the highest divorce rates ever. These kids expect to have everything done for them. There is no give and take. Life is like a video game to them- they can just hit a reset button if they dont like whats going on"
I think this is right on.......
He is right however the
He is right however the parents are the ones who have allowed them to think this way and they do it for them! they set the reset button for them when they let them do what they when they want and no discipline.
I know, and the funny thing
I know, and the funny thing is, hes as guilty as any of those parents! Probably doesnt see it himself, though. My 7 years of saying the same things over and over has made him (and me) numb I guess.
I am very lucky as my dh seen
I am very lucky as my dh seen it with in the first couple of years of our marriage. We were talking about it last week and he told me he was very thankful to me for opening his eyes b/c that is not how he wanted to raise his kids. Although bm is raising them that way but while they are at our house they know better as dh will put them in their place and after 7 years of this they have learned to behave at our house. At least dh is doing his best while he has them.e
Agreed...we were talking
Agreed...we were talking about this yesterday also-it's all the age of instant gratification. Have to constantly be entertained. I'm used to just chilling at my house w/my boys on wknds-sometimes we do something, sometimes we don't. They'll play outside a bit, come back in, watch cartoons, go back out, play w/neighbors, eat something, in other words, they can chill.
His D on the other hand has to constantly be doing something, going somewhere, cannot self entertain unless there's a ton of other kids around to play. She kept coming in, interrupting, I'm bored, over and over, it was ridiculous. We'd give her options she'd squash them all. Then she'd get mad when my boys didn't want to play exactly what SHE wanted to play. To which my bf responded-you're mean to them most of the time it's no wonder they don't want to play with you! GRRR
But then I watch shows on tv and think who is RAISING these women to behave this way?
Bridezilla, Jilted, Bridalplasty, all those wedding shows,
These women are insane, so entitled, spoiled, controlling, bossy...it makes me ill. I would not dream of behaving like that. EVER. It's sick!
Oh my goodness I can't get
Oh my goodness I can't get enough of Bridezilla! Haha guilty guilty pleasure. Actually BF and I watch it together. He claims that he doesn't care too much for it, but I put it on when we're cooking and he watches just as avidly as I do.
I'm convinced, though, that these demon women and their parents and self-hating husbands stay in they're own little world where they procreate and perpetuate the cycle amongst themselves. They will soon all be inbred and die out like the dodo.