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Posted by Rod Speed on October 20, 2008, 9:30 pm
Please log in for more thread options lenona321@yahoo.com wrote:
> She's in her mid-40s, BTW.
How old are the kids ?
> Her website is betsysblog.com.
> Her book is "It Takes a Parent: How the Culture of Pushover
> Parenting Is Hurting Our Children-and What to Do About it."
>
http://online.indianagazette.com/articles/2008/10/19/opinions/syndicated_columnists/10004131.txt
> Excerpt from the second half:
> "I have no problem with telling my kids, ``we're running a tighter ship - get
used to it.''
And she'll come to reget that when they pick her nursing home.
> "I know, I know, big deal. I still have my home, good schools for
> my kids, and I'm not getting rid of the satellite TV anytime soon.
> So I guess for now I'm somewhere between the folks who are
> losing jobs and possibly their homes on the one side, and a
> wealthy acquaintance of mine on the other who announced to
> me with a straight face that she's really cutting back - when
> her Mercedes lease comes up again, she's not renewing it!
> "Still, whatever one's relative changes, the news reports are
> that more and more Americans are dramatically cutting back.
More fool them. That will only make the problem MUCH worse.
> The AP reported this week that retail sales for September 'fell off a cliff.'
Mindless silly hype.
> And that may require some psychological adjustments for all of us.
Nope.
> "This summer, my kids and I saw the Kit Kittredge movie -
> a greatly romanticized version of the Great Depression.
> And so recently I told my children we won't be taking
> in boarders time soon, but. ... they shouldn't get too
> attached to their bedrooms! Sure they know I'm joking,
> but I think it's important for them to see that circumstances
> might change (however still comfortable we are) but
> `things' aren't what we put our faith in anyway........."
Then you should allow those who have lost their houses to move in.
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