Parents, Too pushy?

Sometimes, I wonder why parents push their kids to get a job. Now, this isn't really a bad thing. However, I sometimes feel that some parents just suggest a job because it happens to pay out a load of money. Why not a job that they love? They have a much better chance of getting somewhere in a slightly lower paying job that they love, than getting somewhere in a high paying job that they hate (I read that in an MSN article).

What do you think?

Don't get me on the topic of parents. <_<

As for parents and pushing their kids to get a job, well.................. you might go "well, they mean well", ... but do they really? Stop and think. .... if they tell you to take a job, and you know you'll hate that job, .... who are they really pullin' for? You, or your wallet?

Finance isn't everything, especially when you're under the age of 18 or 19. I'm still being pushed to get a job, even though I'm going to Keyin Tech in a few weeks. :blink: Parents are an odd batch of sea monkeys.

The worst kind are the ones who try to live through their kids. I've seen them, and it makes me want to take the kids and put them somewhere safe, away from their corrupt parents.

In the words of George Carlin,

"The ones with the bumper stickers like 'We are the proud parents of an honour student at a friendly school' ... or whatever term they use for the endoctrination centre where their child has been sent to be turned into an obedient, soul-less, brain-dead member of the consumer culture. How would you like to live with a couple o' these misfits?

-How's that science project coming along, Justin?

-... Fuck you, dad."

:lol:

George Carlin is the best comedian ever!

I also don't like how parents are... old. ;)

:lol:

Mind elaborating on that one, Brain?

:blink:

Older people are usually associated with more intelligence, which is not always true. I've met plenty of people who are a lot smarter than their own parents.

Too true.

They convince themselves that because they're older, they're wiser, too. I really hate that. It's too damn easy to just shut your kid down by using that frame of mind, it's too limited and thee's no reasoning or logic. Here's any conversation with my dad:

What's so bad about _______?

-- It's stupid.

Why?

-- Trust me, my son, I knows much better than you, I've lived longer than you have and I knows better how things works. (he has the super-Newfie-dialect)

...... ooooooooooooooooookay. **walks away**

Know what I mean? As if age has a factor on over-all knowledge and logical thought.

Does your father really talk like that? I can't see how you wouldn't laugh at someone who talked like that!

Of course, it's easy to take someone for granted when they are smaller than you.

Look at how I treat Victoria! :P
I'm not mean to her, I just like calling her one "special word". :rolleyes:

Midget? :P

Yeah, my dad talks like that.

"I knows you tinks it's this that or da udder ting, but I've been around a lot than yee young fellers has, an' I knows better"

:o :o :o

He even justifies his word choice with that argument? Amazing.

And, how did you guess what word I called her? I mean it in a cute way, but, still.

No, that's not how he justifies his word choice, he's never done that. :lol: It was just random example using no specific topic.

& yay, I guessed right.

Does she know you're just playing? :P

Random example? Ah. Just like Carlin. :P

She's never heard me call her that, though. I only do it when I am talking to my mom about her. It's always in a good light. Very odd.

You talk to your mo about Victoria?

I didn't even talk to my mom about Nicole more than twice.

:lol:

Oh, and that other chat when she found that condom in the trash. I'd say Nicole was indirectly involved in that conversation. :lol:

Who browses trash anyways? Besides Oscar The Grouch? :o


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:ph43r:

Yeah, not much, though.

Also, your mother looked through your trash? Eww.

Isn't that being a bit too intrusive? Checking your child's trash is probably going a bit too far.