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January 12, 2010 at 1:32 PM #502347January 12, 2010 at 2:01 PM #501474
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ParticipantQuestioning your sanity is the first sign that you are sane.
We should all chip in and send her one of these…
http://www.hasbro.com/easybake/
As a replacement…
Mean… but fun! :p
Wow she is crazy… How did she ever pass the realtor’s exam?
CE
January 12, 2010 at 2:01 PM #501622ParticipantQuestioning your sanity is the first sign that you are sane.
We should all chip in and send her one of these…
http://www.hasbro.com/easybake/
As a replacement…
Mean… but fun! :p
Wow she is crazy… How did she ever pass the realtor’s exam?
CE
January 12, 2010 at 2:01 PM #502019ParticipantQuestioning your sanity is the first sign that you are sane.
We should all chip in and send her one of these…
http://www.hasbro.com/easybake/
As a replacement…
Mean… but fun! :p
Wow she is crazy… How did she ever pass the realtor’s exam?
CE
January 12, 2010 at 2:01 PM #502114ParticipantQuestioning your sanity is the first sign that you are sane.
We should all chip in and send her one of these…
http://www.hasbro.com/easybake/
As a replacement…
Mean… but fun! :p
Wow she is crazy… How did she ever pass the realtor’s exam?
CE
January 12, 2010 at 2:01 PM #502362ParticipantQuestioning your sanity is the first sign that you are sane.
We should all chip in and send her one of these…
http://www.hasbro.com/easybake/
As a replacement…
Mean… but fun! :p
Wow she is crazy… How did she ever pass the realtor’s exam?
CE
January 12, 2010 at 2:10 PM #501479eavesdropper
ParticipantAllan, I don’t know how you keep coaching. You must have incredible self-control. I think I’d be a goner the first time a parent wanted to review the “game films” with me.
These “stage parents” are all over these days. My 15 yr-old daughter plays the cello, and performs in a couple of youth orchestras. You should see some of the parents. I’m afraid to let her go to rehearsals by herself. And, unfortunately, the parents’ attitudes have been passed on to some of the kids. The competition is incredible, and the atmosphere is vicious at times. So much for the joy of music.
These parents think that their kids can be trained to be great athletes and musicians and performers. They don’t understand that greatness is not possible in the absence of talent, and that talent will not flourish in the absence of desire. They just push and push and push, and screw up their kids in the process. But there CAN be joy in the absence of talent, and this appears to be a incomprehensible concept for many parents – the idea of their kids participating in an activity just for the fun of it.
What blows my mind is the total lack of concern that many parents have about academic achievement. They want their kids to get straight As, but they don’t expect the kids to earn them. They’ll threaten the teachers and the administration until their kids substandard grades are raised. Because, after all, their kid has to go to one of the best colleges if he’s going to compete.
There’s no concern about whether their children will actually be able to function on their own. But, then again, it will ensure that Dr. Phil will be on the air for years to come. Most popular show topic? “How Do I Get My Adult Kid to Move Out and Support Himself”.
January 12, 2010 at 2:10 PM #501627ParticipantAllan, I don’t know how you keep coaching. You must have incredible self-control. I think I’d be a goner the first time a parent wanted to review the “game films” with me.
These “stage parents” are all over these days. My 15 yr-old daughter plays the cello, and performs in a couple of youth orchestras. You should see some of the parents. I’m afraid to let her go to rehearsals by herself. And, unfortunately, the parents’ attitudes have been passed on to some of the kids. The competition is incredible, and the atmosphere is vicious at times. So much for the joy of music.
These parents think that their kids can be trained to be great athletes and musicians and performers. They don’t understand that greatness is not possible in the absence of talent, and that talent will not flourish in the absence of desire. They just push and push and push, and screw up their kids in the process. But there CAN be joy in the absence of talent, and this appears to be a incomprehensible concept for many parents – the idea of their kids participating in an activity just for the fun of it.
What blows my mind is the total lack of concern that many parents have about academic achievement. They want their kids to get straight As, but they don’t expect the kids to earn them. They’ll threaten the teachers and the administration until their kids substandard grades are raised. Because, after all, their kid has to go to one of the best colleges if he’s going to compete.
There’s no concern about whether their children will actually be able to function on their own. But, then again, it will ensure that Dr. Phil will be on the air for years to come. Most popular show topic? “How Do I Get My Adult Kid to Move Out and Support Himself”.
January 12, 2010 at 2:10 PM #502024ParticipantAllan, I don’t know how you keep coaching. You must have incredible self-control. I think I’d be a goner the first time a parent wanted to review the “game films” with me.
These “stage parents” are all over these days. My 15 yr-old daughter plays the cello, and performs in a couple of youth orchestras. You should see some of the parents. I’m afraid to let her go to rehearsals by herself. And, unfortunately, the parents’ attitudes have been passed on to some of the kids. The competition is incredible, and the atmosphere is vicious at times. So much for the joy of music.
These parents think that their kids can be trained to be great athletes and musicians and performers. They don’t understand that greatness is not possible in the absence of talent, and that talent will not flourish in the absence of desire. They just push and push and push, and screw up their kids in the process. But there CAN be joy in the absence of talent, and this appears to be a incomprehensible concept for many parents – the idea of their kids participating in an activity just for the fun of it.
What blows my mind is the total lack of concern that many parents have about academic achievement. They want their kids to get straight As, but they don’t expect the kids to earn them. They’ll threaten the teachers and the administration until their kids substandard grades are raised. Because, after all, their kid has to go to one of the best colleges if he’s going to compete.
There’s no concern about whether their children will actually be able to function on their own. But, then again, it will ensure that Dr. Phil will be on the air for years to come. Most popular show topic? “How Do I Get My Adult Kid to Move Out and Support Himself”.
January 12, 2010 at 2:10 PM #502118ParticipantAllan, I don’t know how you keep coaching. You must have incredible self-control. I think I’d be a goner the first time a parent wanted to review the “game films” with me.
These “stage parents” are all over these days. My 15 yr-old daughter plays the cello, and performs in a couple of youth orchestras. You should see some of the parents. I’m afraid to let her go to rehearsals by herself. And, unfortunately, the parents’ attitudes have been passed on to some of the kids. The competition is incredible, and the atmosphere is vicious at times. So much for the joy of music.
These parents think that their kids can be trained to be great athletes and musicians and performers. They don’t understand that greatness is not possible in the absence of talent, and that talent will not flourish in the absence of desire. They just push and push and push, and screw up their kids in the process. But there CAN be joy in the absence of talent, and this appears to be a incomprehensible concept for many parents – the idea of their kids participating in an activity just for the fun of it.
What blows my mind is the total lack of concern that many parents have about academic achievement. They want their kids to get straight As, but they don’t expect the kids to earn them. They’ll threaten the teachers and the administration until their kids substandard grades are raised. Because, after all, their kid has to go to one of the best colleges if he’s going to compete.
There’s no concern about whether their children will actually be able to function on their own. But, then again, it will ensure that Dr. Phil will be on the air for years to come. Most popular show topic? “How Do I Get My Adult Kid to Move Out and Support Himself”.
January 12, 2010 at 2:10 PM #502367ParticipantAllan, I don’t know how you keep coaching. You must have incredible self-control. I think I’d be a goner the first time a parent wanted to review the “game films” with me.
These “stage parents” are all over these days. My 15 yr-old daughter plays the cello, and performs in a couple of youth orchestras. You should see some of the parents. I’m afraid to let her go to rehearsals by herself. And, unfortunately, the parents’ attitudes have been passed on to some of the kids. The competition is incredible, and the atmosphere is vicious at times. So much for the joy of music.
These parents think that their kids can be trained to be great athletes and musicians and performers. They don’t understand that greatness is not possible in the absence of talent, and that talent will not flourish in the absence of desire. They just push and push and push, and screw up their kids in the process. But there CAN be joy in the absence of talent, and this appears to be a incomprehensible concept for many parents – the idea of their kids participating in an activity just for the fun of it.
What blows my mind is the total lack of concern that many parents have about academic achievement. They want their kids to get straight As, but they don’t expect the kids to earn them. They’ll threaten the teachers and the administration until their kids substandard grades are raised. Because, after all, their kid has to go to one of the best colleges if he’s going to compete.
There’s no concern about whether their children will actually be able to function on their own. But, then again, it will ensure that Dr. Phil will be on the air for years to come. Most popular show topic? “How Do I Get My Adult Kid to Move Out and Support Himself”.
January 12, 2010 at 2:22 PM #501499ParticipantCE, please send me an EasyBake Oven. I wanted one soooo badly when I was a kid (even thought it’s hard to believe they had electricity that far back), but I never got one. Never got over it, either, nor over the little white go-go boots for which I pined.
But I digress. I really question whether she did, indeed, get her realtor’s license. Based on her mySpace page, and on her rambling manifesto, I find it very difficult to believe that she did pass the test.
Let’s face it: the article is filled with lies and half-truths. What’s one more? Besides, I don’t think that Lisa consciously lies. Like so many Americans today, she just creates this parallel universe – Lisa’s version of the truth – and it immediately becomes her reality……
You know, I really have to stay away from that DSM-IV. I’m giving excuses to someone who can generate her own quite adequately.
January 12, 2010 at 2:22 PM #501647ParticipantCE, please send me an EasyBake Oven. I wanted one soooo badly when I was a kid (even thought it’s hard to believe they had electricity that far back), but I never got one. Never got over it, either, nor over the little white go-go boots for which I pined.
But I digress. I really question whether she did, indeed, get her realtor’s license. Based on her mySpace page, and on her rambling manifesto, I find it very difficult to believe that she did pass the test.
Let’s face it: the article is filled with lies and half-truths. What’s one more? Besides, I don’t think that Lisa consciously lies. Like so many Americans today, she just creates this parallel universe – Lisa’s version of the truth – and it immediately becomes her reality……
You know, I really have to stay away from that DSM-IV. I’m giving excuses to someone who can generate her own quite adequately.
January 12, 2010 at 2:22 PM #502043ParticipantCE, please send me an EasyBake Oven. I wanted one soooo badly when I was a kid (even thought it’s hard to believe they had electricity that far back), but I never got one. Never got over it, either, nor over the little white go-go boots for which I pined.
But I digress. I really question whether she did, indeed, get her realtor’s license. Based on her mySpace page, and on her rambling manifesto, I find it very difficult to believe that she did pass the test.
Let’s face it: the article is filled with lies and half-truths. What’s one more? Besides, I don’t think that Lisa consciously lies. Like so many Americans today, she just creates this parallel universe – Lisa’s version of the truth – and it immediately becomes her reality……
You know, I really have to stay away from that DSM-IV. I’m giving excuses to someone who can generate her own quite adequately.
January 12, 2010 at 2:22 PM #502138ParticipantCE, please send me an EasyBake Oven. I wanted one soooo badly when I was a kid (even thought it’s hard to believe they had electricity that far back), but I never got one. Never got over it, either, nor over the little white go-go boots for which I pined.
But I digress. I really question whether she did, indeed, get her realtor’s license. Based on her mySpace page, and on her rambling manifesto, I find it very difficult to believe that she did pass the test.
Let’s face it: the article is filled with lies and half-truths. What’s one more? Besides, I don’t think that Lisa consciously lies. Like so many Americans today, she just creates this parallel universe – Lisa’s version of the truth – and it immediately becomes her reality……
You know, I really have to stay away from that DSM-IV. I’m giving excuses to someone who can generate her own quite adequately.
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