Good article on spoiled American kids| Off-Topic Discussion forum |

racerfink Dork
7/1/12 3:55 p.m.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/07/02/120702crbo_books_kolbert?currentPage=all&mobify=0

We have something to learn from the French and Matsigenka.

SVreX MegaDork
7/1/12 5:48 p.m.

That's a good article.

Barring, of course, the exceeding verbosity of the elitist New Yorker magazine! (That means they talk too much!)

BoostedBrandon Dork
7/1/12 6:12 p.m.

I agree, they could have written that without so many big words!

Not everyone gets a trophy. Or a degree.

Curmudgeon MegaDork
7/1/12 6:43 p.m.

Another link on the same page:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2011/01/31/110131crbo_books_kolbert

DrBoost UberDork
7/1/12 6:50 p.m.

Holy crap people! Word count does NOT equal a good article. But, the thing I agree with the most is that people should learn to say no to the kids.

Curmudgeon MegaDork
7/1/12 6:54 p.m.

Yeah, my kid got used to 'no' kinda early. Doesn't seemed to have harmed her self esteem.

DrBoost UberDork
7/1/12 7:03 p.m.

Curmudgeon wrote: Yeah, my kid got used to 'no' kinda early. Doesn't seemed to have harmed her self esteem.

Oh you just don't know it yet, but she'll grow up to live a horrible life. Every time she hears 'no' she's gonna think of mean ol' dad and how he wouldn't give her everything she ever wanted, and how she grew up on an oppressive household. Then she'll marry some guy named Snake who's the drummer in a terrible punk band and turn to a life of drugs and crime. Then, with this very thread as evidence, she'll take you to court and sue you.....and win! Then you'll end up in jail with a cell mate that won't want to hear 'no' any more than she did.

Or she'll grow up to be a very well adjusted adult that can do things for herself and realizes that nice things take hard work, and nice things should be appreciated.

Either way.

wlkelley3 Dork
7/1/12 7:17 p.m.

My 29 year old daughter has for the last year or two thanked her mother and I for teaching her the way we did and being as she called it "hard" on her. She now understands why. She has seen kids make a scene and thought that she couldn't get away with that when she was young and has respect for kids that show respect, which according to her is rare. We'll see how much it means to her now that she has her own kid, born 2 days ago.