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Post by madchelle on Sept 27, 2009 9:59:42 GMT
I was brought up thinking if you can't afford it you go without. I lerant that if I wanted something I had to work for it, all my OS trips my car, my music everything that I own I've worked daaammnnn hard for. Not that I'm against parents doing what they feel is right but I find it hard to understand children asking in the first place. my thought..  |
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Post by Hugh on Sept 27, 2009 16:02:21 GMT
Some kids can play their parents like a cheap banjo.
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Post by Linda on Sept 27, 2009 16:42:19 GMT
As Desmond Dekker would sing....
"Love your parents as how you love yourself
Do onto others as they would do to you"
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Post by TTN on Sept 27, 2009 19:25:06 GMT
I believe in all those "life education" virtues as well, but I also believe where you can, you should.
Maybe it's just the way I got dragged up, I find it hard to do nothing if it's within my power to help.
I have no problem with saying "sod em" to anyone else though
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Post by roddy byers on Sept 30, 2009 8:08:16 GMT
I had a very strict up bringing as my father was the youngest of 13 children from upt north
who belived there was womens work ,n, mens work.. - spare the rod spoil the child etc...
So i did the Scooby Doo opposite.. oh Nadgers!
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Post by mrclaypole on Sept 30, 2009 13:08:12 GMT
I was also brought up too believe in if you cant afford it go without. Im glad I stuck to that principle as I see all my friends in so much credit card debt as they all borrowed and lived for tomorrow instead of today. One friend borrowed nearly £30,000 and he has nothing too show for it, most of it "went up his nose and through his brain" or slugged down the pub, the rest he wasted ha ha "ba bum ding"
I had a fairly strict upbringing through my Mum as she was from an Irish background and her parents were very tough on her, she often used to tell us that her Mum used to regualry brake broomsticks on her and her brothers and sisters backs. I guess some of that rubbed off on her and she was very tough with me and my 3 brothers.
My Dad was and still is very laid back, he was always too busy running his own business to get involved with the discipline. He was more an emotional punisher as he wouldnt speak to us for days if we did something wrong and when your a kid and not getting any attention that really screws with your tiny mind.
I see my mum now with her 1st grandchild and he gets away with murder, its only taken her 60 years to mellow out.
Im glad I had the childhood I did have though as I think Ive learnt some valuable stuff from my parents about money and priorities in life and the smacking never scarred me in anyway, in fact it did me a favour in learning where lifes boundaries are.
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Post by Hugh on Sept 30, 2009 15:08:35 GMT
Remember how fathers would help you with your bicycle or whatever, but wouldn't be one of your chums. Now they seem to try too hard to be in their kids' lives. I liked that I could go off with friends and only have to remember to be home for mealtime or tea.
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Post by roddy byers on Oct 1, 2009 7:15:13 GMT
Well throwin money at the problem dont work thats for sure!
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Post by pfiff on Oct 1, 2009 17:16:49 GMT
Remember how fathers would help you with your bicycle or whatever, but wouldn't be one of your chums. Now they seem to try too hard to be in their kids' lives. I liked that I could go off with friends and only have to remember to be home for mealtime or tea. For reals? Funny on several levels! |
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Post by Hugh on Oct 1, 2009 17:23:58 GMT
Not funny but fun, as a childhood should be.
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Post by roddy byers on Oct 2, 2009 12:13:47 GMT
My daughter makes me Scooby Doo cry..
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Post by Hugh on Oct 2, 2009 16:11:19 GMT
Don't worry, it'll all mellow out in twenty years or so.
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Post by pfiff on Oct 2, 2009 16:40:48 GMT
Not funny but fun, as a childhood should be. Oh no, the part about father's trying to be too involved in their kids' lives is pretty funny. |
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Post by Hugh on Oct 2, 2009 16:59:57 GMT
Okay, so I'm sitting in an office with a young manager who gets a call on his mobile phone from his teenage son because mum didn't show up to pick him up from school and everything stops while he sorts this out for his son. I find this very odd. If I did that, my dad's response would have made no sense if it went through the Skabilly forum's filter.
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Post by carefree on Oct 2, 2009 18:52:09 GMT
it wasn't untill my dad died a couple of years ago that i realised he was my best mate.....
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