Whats wrong with kids today?

[Superb Bee]

I always looked at divorce this way- It takes 2, if it didnt work out it was both your faults, I have failed relationships, when I was younger with 1 in particular, I thought it was all her fault, I tried to make it work she put on the act of trying for her friends and family. BUT when I got older and "grew" up a bit, I realized she showed me her true colors very early on, I was the idiot who was either too lazy, infatuated, or insecure to end it myself and move on.
Rarely does someone 360, we are creatures of habit, and there are few women who can fake it for the 2 to 3 year minimum ANYone should wait to tie the knot... If you live with someone for 2 years thats what you are getting, I always tell the kids, make sure you know her, let her have friends and watch her dealings and how she acts, if you can live with it, and you are happy and occupy each others time go for it..

Granted some people not just women, can 360 and turn into different people, but not usually with out some kind of trigger. My parents got divorced after 25 years of marriage, and I knew the reason back then, they didnt do anything, they went to work, came home, went to bed, went to work came home went to bed, eat dinner repeat...

So when you get older you start thinking, WTF am I doing, I feel small in this huge world, I want to see it and live and laugh, and CHANGE.... So thats what happens, me and my wife have a good relationship, a handful of kids to keep us busy when we were younger, and when they are gone, we adapt and enjoy each other again...

THe effect of a kids parents on his outcome has to be HUGE, and as far as tv and media goes I agree what our kids are exposed to is silly, I hear people say "you cant even let your kids watch the news", no ****, why the **** would you let your kids watch the news, thats stupid... I know when I was a kid I wouldnt watch the news if my parents let me which they didnt... The world can be a terrible place, I think kids should find that out when they are old enough to handle it, warn them about the dangers, but dont shock them with the truth, its much easier to handle
WHAT CAN HAPPEN" vs "WHAT REALLY HAPPENED", in other words "hey don't get in a strangers van because they can steal you" vs "little girl got abducted raped, cut into pieces and scattered off a boat in the atlantic, cell phone footage at 5 on channel 10"... Thats no good...


PLUS the I am thinking the video games may have something to do with how dumb our kids are getting and how socially awkward people are..

I don't know, I wish the world was getting better, its like watching a cut on your hand, you take care of it and keep it clean and covered, maybe put a little zink on it every night and neosporin every morning and it will heal up, maybe a little scar but it will get better, but what I see happening is like getting a cut on your hand and then using said hand to cipher the litter box, maybe clean a public restroom for a couple hours, and then watch it fester, and turn into necrotizing fascititus... This is how I think of it, because we see it happening, we see the news, these shootings, the horrible things our kids are doing to each other, and its getting worse, not better, and we are getting less shocked by it.
We hear theres a shooting, or a kid got killed by another kid and we are like "where did it happen? ah thats too bad his poor parents".. I feel like the world got to big and stayed the same size, like trying to restore a school bus with one of those my first toolkits for kids under 5, the plastic hammers that squeek when you squeeze them...

I don't know, I guess I feel helpless today....

 

[Darthomas]

And one person cannot fix a marriage when it's broken.
Especially when one person went in with "reservations", such as keeping maiden name in expectation of failure.

 

[steve from staten island]

And one person cannot fix a marriage when it's broken.
Especially when one person went in with "reservations", such as keeping maiden name in expectation of failure.

That would be a tip off for sure. I never went for that keeping the maiden unless they were Doctor Dentist Attorneys and got there doctorant or law degree before they were married. Then again the maiden name is only used in there buisness or professional circle.

 

[Ron H]

I have to say fortunate to be married with two grown daughters to be very proud of. I think of some of the gals I dated and even went "steady" with that got married and then divorced with younger kids; a few ugly break ups. A good HS buddy had a wife who always thought so highly of herself...it was to the point of embarrassment where she thought she was so beautiful saying at dinner and elsewhere "that guy is staring at me" an expected occurrence as it was whenever we went out. My buddy was just the mellowest super-talented guy great job, income, etc. and she finally dumped him going off with another guy leaving two kids with dad. I don't know seems more of my friends ended up divorced than not as I count them.

 

[Superb Bee]

Women are funny, BUT if you arent blinded by the triangle and you pay attention you can figure them out before you buy the circle...

 

[mmissile]

Just don't think with your dick.

 

[Superb Bee]

easier to do the older you get, but when your young you follow your dick into a room, you get older and your belly goes first...

 

[mmissile]

My brain, has always been smarter than my dick. Pussy is fun, but generally not worth the cost of admission.

 

[GinoX]

Valid points! Of course, all these rants are valid in the environment the poster(s) are raised. Fact is (in MY work environment on my island) it all depends in which period of age/decade/millennium they the kids were born.

In this age of electronics I get a lot of kids' remarks of how old fashioned we the parents are. Disciplining children? That's from the Dark Ages according to them. You don't have the latest cellphone? WTF is wrong with you is what you'll hear. And most of them didn't get to LEARN how to maintain patience/keep their cool.... TOLERANCE....... because we the parents don't have the time of the day to do that so we will give them anything they ask or demand so we don't have to deal with that bothersome situation.

I get this all the time in one of the branches of work I'm doing.

 

[PRND21]

Just don't think with your dick.

A case of the little head telling the big head what to do!

 

[mopar 3 B]

Valid points! Of course, all these rants are valid in the environment the poster(s) are raised. Fact is (in MY work environment on my island) it all depends in which period of age/decade/millennium they the kids were born.

In this age of electronics I get a lot of kids' remarks of how old fashioned we the parents are. Disciplining children? That's from the Dark Ages according to them. You don't have the latest cellphone? WTF is wrong with you is what you'll hear. And most of them didn't get to LEARN how to maintain patience/keep their cool.... TOLERANCE....... because we the parents don't have the time of the day to do that so we will give them anything they ask or demand so we don't have to deal with that bothersome situation.

I get this all the time in one of the branches of work I'm doing.

If they demanded to know WTF was wrong with me for disciplining them they would soon find out because the cell phone and internet would soon be a thing of the past. Simply put the plug would be pulled.