What car would you buy for your kid?

[Hemi Rebel]

Dont and not going to agree with you. Fine you did your own but while my daughters in college i,ll do without to help her. I dont think i,m hampering her. Just giving her the chance I never got. Why did yall have kids if you dont want to give them anything or spoil them?

I think the best thing you can give your children are the tools needed to be a productive member of society. By the time they are of driving age it should be apparent if they will be or not. Me personally, i dont think you should spoil them. That will more than likely produce an entitlement mentality. There is nothing wrong with teaching them the value of hard work, and how to deal with failure as well as success. So i say raise your kids right, and save the spoils for the grandkids!
On a side note, of all my grandparents, when i was a small child my moms mother was the worst. I called her my mean grandmother. She was born in 1920 on the 4th of july. Came of age in texas during the depression and she was a no nonsense woman. She passed away in january 20th 09. 4 years ago to the day. Of all my grandparents, i wish she was still alive. As horrible as i thought she was, i owe her most of all for making me the man i am today. They don't make 'em like that anymore.
So i know it makes you feel good to spoil your kids, and being a strict hardass may not even be in your nature, but in the long run they will figure out why you were, thank you for it and for that you will be most proud.

 

[pabster]

I think the balance between spoiling them and giving them boundaries is the way to go. Sometimes I "spoil" my little ones, other times I put my foot down a bit. My mom was all about the "my way or the highway" approach and it failed miserably. I was a pretty good kid, but when my mom wouldn't budge or give in or try a different approach with certain issues, it destroyed our relationship. She's still pissed that I didn't take the SAT a second time, and that was over 20 years ago! Anyway, I learned the hard way that being a total hardass with kids may not whip them into shape, they may end up just hating your guts.

And to the poster who went off about how awesome it is to not have kids, you have no idea what it's like to have them, so you're have no clue what you're talking about. There are way too many people on this planet already, and I respect people who don't want to have kids, but rubbing it in our faces is pretty pathetic. My life without kids would've been great, but my love and joy with them in my life is off the charts and I couldn't imagine my life without them.

 

[Budnicks]

There are way too many people on this planet already, and I respect people who don't want to have kids, but rubbing it in our faces is pretty pathetic. My life without kids would've been great, but my love and joy with them in my life is off the charts and I couldn't imagine my life without them.

I was really lucky but, Wait tell their teenagers, you haven't raised children yet, you have just babies so far, your tune may be changed slightly, when they're teens, it doesn't mean you don't/won't still love them, you may want to ring their damn necks from time to time, hopefully you won't, especially if you haven't put the respect for their dads/moms values or principles into them, especially in the big city & their piers all around them, corrupting them everyday... opinion will vary VASTLY, especially when raising children & where to raise them too.... I always said, "have respect 1st & don't try to be their best friend, be their parents 1st & foremost", then maybe their buddy, don't spoil them, "make them" learn the respect for the all mighty dollar & hard work to earn what they want... it will serve them very well in life, especially when it comes to cars responsibility & ownership...

 

[kdtjb]

66 Malibu , but I made him buy his own bicycle. It cost about 6 times what the Malibu did. Of corse he fixed up the Malibu on his own. And no I can't out swim, bike, or run him, but he is so slow at building Mopars it's pathetic.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

:rolling::tongueflap:

 

[Pugly]

Dont and not going to agree with you. Fine you did your own but while my daughters in college i,ll do without to help her. I dont think i,m hampering her. Just giving her the chance I never got. Why did yall have kids if you dont want to give them anything or spoil them?

lol... can't spoil them too much. Like i was saying, as long as they are working hard at school, then that qualifies as working hard. I got friends with kids in college who won't help their kids and they have the money. If the kids is f'n off at school then yea, tell them they are on their own, but if they are busting butt, then they deserve help......especially if you can give it to them.

 

[Sportfury63]

When my son was 14(1999), and talking about cars for the first time, I bought a '77 Trans Am, and told him it was his IF he helped me restore it. He helped me two or three times for maybe 20 or 30 minutes each, and from then on was too busy with friends, video games and football. It took me almost two years to finish that car, and he was so excited as he was very close to 16 by then. I reminded him of our agreement, which luckily we had written down, and I had insisted he sign. He didn't get the car, as it was sold quickly after completion. One and a half years later, he bought his first car, a 1994 Nissan Sentra that was his grandmother's--he paid for it himself, and paid for insurance and did all the maintenance. Best thing I ever did, as he got 5 years of use out of that thing, and hated it the whole time as it was a "Granny Car".

 

[Budnicks]

66 MalibuView attachment 99170, but I made him buy his own bicycle. It cost about 6 times what the Malibu did. Of corse he fixed up the Malibu on his own. And no I can't out swim, bike, or run him, but he is so slow at building Mopars it's pathetic.

LMFAO the highlighted in bold part is funny as hell... I can still whoop James {my boy} in Golf...LOL... It sucks when they get better than you at anything, but it's also a damn proud moment too... your son sounds like a great son anyway...