STOP SPOILING THE KIDS.
It’s obvious that the United States is going to hell in a hand basket – whatever the hell that means? However, it’s undeniable that we are getting soft. We’ve become a spoiled society – people want and expect things for nothing. No one seems willing to work hard for an honest – or dishonest – days pay. The only thing that interests them is money. How much can I accumulate? How much can I spend and show off with? “God, I hope I don’t step in dog shit with my $500 pair of Prada sneakers.”
After much study, I have found the reason for all that flaccidness – it all started with the lack of worship of the lava lamp. If that wasn’t bad enough – how many people do you know that have Chia pets in their homes? ‘Nough said?
As an example: The Old Geezer never complained when, as a kid in Brooklyn, I had to walk 5 miles every day barefoot through snow drifts accompanied by my faithful wolfhound, Yetta…to get to Samuel J. Tilden High School -- our little red schoolhouse -- along with eight thousand other frost-bitten schmucks. We didn’t kvetch about our hardship – we just did it. If it was good enough for old Abe Lincoln it was good enough for Yetta’s master. My generation was made up of rugged individualists. We asked nothing from nobody…we took no prisoners. The only “spoiled” we knew about was 2 week old tuna fish.
Be honest – how many kids today walk barefoot anyplace except maybe to the refrigerator? We have created generations of shallow, bitchy, soft boys and girls who haven’t a clue what real life is about. They are given and handed everything they want instead of being asked to work for it. Is it any wonder that youngsters today have jumped into the “ME” generation with both expensively clad tootsies?
Unless fathers, mothers and grandparents mend their ways – society can look forward to more and more Paris Hiltons polluting our country. Let’s end this “nothing is too good for my child” nonsense. There’s plenty too good for the little bastard. Did you know that some parents are now willing to fork over $30,440.00 for pre-school so their 4-year old can occupy a few hours each day playing with blocks and finger painting in an organized setting? That doesn’t include messing around in a sandbox – that’s extra.
The over 30-thou is the price of admission at New York’s Ethical Culture Fieldston School. Other private pre-schools aren’t much better.
Tuitions to these pre-schools have been rising at an 8% clip across the board. That’s more than the annual tuition increase at Ivy League colleges. Have we lost our minds? One of these rip-offs just built a new gymnasium, library and multimedia center for its spoiled tots. Pre-school can cost more than studying for an engineering degree at Michigan. If you think that parents pouring fortunes at these pre-schools is justified and okay – then consider the “little genius” at one of them, who went fishing in the classroom fish tank.
Each year fathers and mothers wait anxiously – their checkbooks at the ready – to pay these exorbitant fees so that their kids who need two-weeks notice to stop peeing on their shoes – can have milk and designer cookies with other brats. Ridiculous! Let ‘em walk five miles barefoot in the snow like honest Abe and I did. I’ll even lend them “Yetta,” for a small donation to the Old Geezer building fund.
After much study, I have found the reason for all that flaccidness – it all started with the lack of worship of the lava lamp. If that wasn’t bad enough – how many people do you know that have Chia pets in their homes? ‘Nough said?
As an example: The Old Geezer never complained when, as a kid in Brooklyn, I had to walk 5 miles every day barefoot through snow drifts accompanied by my faithful wolfhound, Yetta…to get to Samuel J. Tilden High School -- our little red schoolhouse -- along with eight thousand other frost-bitten schmucks. We didn’t kvetch about our hardship – we just did it. If it was good enough for old Abe Lincoln it was good enough for Yetta’s master. My generation was made up of rugged individualists. We asked nothing from nobody…we took no prisoners. The only “spoiled” we knew about was 2 week old tuna fish.
Be honest – how many kids today walk barefoot anyplace except maybe to the refrigerator? We have created generations of shallow, bitchy, soft boys and girls who haven’t a clue what real life is about. They are given and handed everything they want instead of being asked to work for it. Is it any wonder that youngsters today have jumped into the “ME” generation with both expensively clad tootsies?
Unless fathers, mothers and grandparents mend their ways – society can look forward to more and more Paris Hiltons polluting our country. Let’s end this “nothing is too good for my child” nonsense. There’s plenty too good for the little bastard. Did you know that some parents are now willing to fork over $30,440.00 for pre-school so their 4-year old can occupy a few hours each day playing with blocks and finger painting in an organized setting? That doesn’t include messing around in a sandbox – that’s extra.
The over 30-thou is the price of admission at New York’s Ethical Culture Fieldston School. Other private pre-schools aren’t much better.
Tuitions to these pre-schools have been rising at an 8% clip across the board. That’s more than the annual tuition increase at Ivy League colleges. Have we lost our minds? One of these rip-offs just built a new gymnasium, library and multimedia center for its spoiled tots. Pre-school can cost more than studying for an engineering degree at Michigan. If you think that parents pouring fortunes at these pre-schools is justified and okay – then consider the “little genius” at one of them, who went fishing in the classroom fish tank.
Each year fathers and mothers wait anxiously – their checkbooks at the ready – to pay these exorbitant fees so that their kids who need two-weeks notice to stop peeing on their shoes – can have milk and designer cookies with other brats. Ridiculous! Let ‘em walk five miles barefoot in the snow like honest Abe and I did. I’ll even lend them “Yetta,” for a small donation to the Old Geezer building fund.
posted by THE RANTING OLD GEEZER at 9:27 AM
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