Yeah, we boomers knew it was a mistake to hand out participation trophies and not keep score in child sports.
26
been saying this for years and somehow I’m the asshole.
18
Her childhood was savage?
I was born in 59 so my childhood was 60’s and most of 70’s.
1976 was a great year to be American and I remember it well as a 17 year old.
How the hell did we get here?
21
I didn’t fuck up, my kids are just fine.
9
Yes, hilarious, should not have provided participation trophies, and a few more “beatings,” at least in the sense of losing a few times, failing a few times…hearing “no” a few times…
9
I’m triggered! Take me to my safe space or I’m going to glue myself to something.
14
Fucking leftists!
3
agreed, there’s nothing like a little pain & discomfort to reset your soul
when a kid knows there will be pain associated with bad behavior they’ll usually forgo the temptation
and these kids actually thought no one was taking score … LOLOL
enjoy your career at the verizon store with your multiple degrees & massive debt
9
While waiting to get my haircut by my talented but lefty hairstylist, the client in her chair was a kindergarten teacher, and she had lots to say. She said her kids in class this year were “feral.” Terrible behavioral problems in ways she had not seen in her 25 years of teaching. Violent outbursts from boys and girls and one kid has suspected Tourette’s syndrome. It sounded like she spent all of her time accessing who had mental problems and stopping fights… in kindergarteners!
Masks?!? Vax?!? Something else?
12
Participation trophies didn’t fly in our household.
When my son was in Pee-wee Soccer, his team came in dead last.
The coach was handing out participation trophies during the pizza dinner after the last game.
My son handed his back and told him that last place didn’t deserve trophies.
I’m so glad my son grew up knowing that if there is something you want in life, you work for it.
If it’s something really important, you bust your ass for it.
14
My parents never ignored me. They pushed me. And we pushed our kids.
6
At work we always called them Gen X slackers, but now the Millennials and Zoomers are even worse.
5
My father (1920) used to say, “No one said it was going to be easy.”
If kids are good at a lot of things, they often expect to be good at everything and learning that they’re not is one of life’s great lessons – one that needs to be learned early with it’s lasting reward: humility.
5
We mostly learn from failure.
Early success engenders arrogance.
(see: Germany and Japan in WWII)
Or, as that dead white dude said: “The burned hand teaches best.”
Every couple of generations we have to re-learn everything all over again (heh heh) (see: the Old Testament).
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
9
In some long forgotten mystery novel I read many years ago, the antagonist, who was a wealthy man, stated “I consider myself successful because I’m right 35% of the time.” That means a 65% failure rate, which in my experience is about right.
The crime is not that you fail from time to time, but you don’t learn from your failures. Actually, I don’t have failures – I have a lot of educational opportunities – and this is what I try to teach to my kids.
7
I sent this to my kids.
They’re all in their 30’s and can’t stand how leftist so many of their friends are. They’ll get a kick out of this.
5
Like John Wayne said…”Life is tough, it’s tougher if you’re stupid!”
5
Competition makes you understand that losing makes you want to win more.
There are winners and losers….I am no biologist but I can tell the difference between the 2
7
It’s all Dr. Benjamin Spock’s fault!
5
it used to be children were seen & not heard otherwise your parents took “time out” of their busy day to bust butts for stupid shit
now the public school system gets to say the kids need adhd meds instead of learning how to handle unpleasant situations
until you feel the satisfaction and success after completing a very hard task you’ll never have the right attitude to accomplish much of anything useful or worthwhile
7
Back in my NCO days I would tell my guys that if it was easy it wouldn’t be any fun
5
When I was scoring student essays, I realized just what parents and teachers were doing to the kids. “You can be/do/think/achieve anything you want. You can do it!”
OH, NO THEY CAN’T!
Believe me when I tell you nearly 25% of the essays I read were about the kids wanting to be sports superstars. Did they train? Did they work hard? No, they complained that the coach was too hard on them and they could be that LeBron James idiot if the coach would just see how wonderful they were.
Same goes for singers. Oh, the girls were all going to pack the concert venues and make millions of dollars singing like Whitney Huston.
Actors? They were all brilliant and the world was going to love them.
Nearly 100% of those papers were from students in inner cities. They were told this fairy tale but no one ever told them they had to actually work for it.
Those were the saddest, most disturbing papers I read. Most of the time, they just ached for someone to love them. All they got were lies.
14
Born in 70 and can’t complain about my up bringing. Had chores, had to do well in school, left outside all day, and when in public my mom always had a wooden spoon in her purse to beat your ass into submission if you got out of line. (now probably considered felony pre meditated child abuse)I was smallish for my age until late in high school and Mom had a odd since of style how children should dress for school so I learned to fight at an early age.I became a pretty good scrapper and wrestler. Can’t look back and complain.Now dealing with trying to train millennials to do actual skilled labor for my business is impossible.I get mad and tell them their mom didn’t beat them enough, they reply “My mom never beat me”
“We should have beat ’em a little more.”
I busted out laughing at that one.
Yeah, we boomers knew it was a mistake to hand out participation trophies and not keep score in child sports.
been saying this for years and somehow I’m the asshole.
Her childhood was savage?
I was born in 59 so my childhood was 60’s and most of 70’s.
1976 was a great year to be American and I remember it well as a 17 year old.
How the hell did we get here?
I didn’t fuck up, my kids are just fine.
Yes, hilarious, should not have provided participation trophies, and a few more “beatings,” at least in the sense of losing a few times, failing a few times…hearing “no” a few times…
I’m triggered! Take me to my safe space or I’m going to glue myself to something.
Fucking leftists!
agreed, there’s nothing like a little pain & discomfort to reset your soul
when a kid knows there will be pain associated with bad behavior they’ll usually forgo the temptation
and these kids actually thought no one was taking score … LOLOL
enjoy your career at the verizon store with your multiple degrees & massive debt
While waiting to get my haircut by my talented but lefty hairstylist, the client in her chair was a kindergarten teacher, and she had lots to say. She said her kids in class this year were “feral.” Terrible behavioral problems in ways she had not seen in her 25 years of teaching. Violent outbursts from boys and girls and one kid has suspected Tourette’s syndrome. It sounded like she spent all of her time accessing who had mental problems and stopping fights… in kindergarteners!
Masks?!? Vax?!? Something else?
Participation trophies didn’t fly in our household.
When my son was in Pee-wee Soccer, his team came in dead last.
The coach was handing out participation trophies during the pizza dinner after the last game.
My son handed his back and told him that last place didn’t deserve trophies.
I’m so glad my son grew up knowing that if there is something you want in life, you work for it.
If it’s something really important, you bust your ass for it.
My parents never ignored me. They pushed me. And we pushed our kids.
At work we always called them Gen X slackers, but now the Millennials and Zoomers are even worse.
My father (1920) used to say, “No one said it was going to be easy.”
If kids are good at a lot of things, they often expect to be good at everything and learning that they’re not is one of life’s great lessons – one that needs to be learned early with it’s lasting reward: humility.
We mostly learn from failure.
Early success engenders arrogance.
(see: Germany and Japan in WWII)
Or, as that dead white dude said: “The burned hand teaches best.”
Every couple of generations we have to re-learn everything all over again (heh heh) (see: the Old Testament).
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
In some long forgotten mystery novel I read many years ago, the antagonist, who was a wealthy man, stated “I consider myself successful because I’m right 35% of the time.” That means a 65% failure rate, which in my experience is about right.
The crime is not that you fail from time to time, but you don’t learn from your failures. Actually, I don’t have failures – I have a lot of educational opportunities – and this is what I try to teach to my kids.
I sent this to my kids.
They’re all in their 30’s and can’t stand how leftist so many of their friends are. They’ll get a kick out of this.
Like John Wayne said…”Life is tough, it’s tougher if you’re stupid!”
Competition makes you understand that losing makes you want to win more.
There are winners and losers….I am no biologist but I can tell the difference between the 2
It’s all Dr. Benjamin Spock’s fault!
it used to be children were seen & not heard otherwise your parents took “time out” of their busy day to bust butts for stupid shit
now the public school system gets to say the kids need adhd meds instead of learning how to handle unpleasant situations
until you feel the satisfaction and success after completing a very hard task you’ll never have the right attitude to accomplish much of anything useful or worthwhile
Back in my NCO days I would tell my guys that if it was easy it wouldn’t be any fun
When I was scoring student essays, I realized just what parents and teachers were doing to the kids. “You can be/do/think/achieve anything you want. You can do it!”
OH, NO THEY CAN’T!
Believe me when I tell you nearly 25% of the essays I read were about the kids wanting to be sports superstars. Did they train? Did they work hard? No, they complained that the coach was too hard on them and they could be that LeBron James idiot if the coach would just see how wonderful they were.
Same goes for singers. Oh, the girls were all going to pack the concert venues and make millions of dollars singing like Whitney Huston.
Actors? They were all brilliant and the world was going to love them.
Nearly 100% of those papers were from students in inner cities. They were told this fairy tale but no one ever told them they had to actually work for it.
Those were the saddest, most disturbing papers I read. Most of the time, they just ached for someone to love them. All they got were lies.
Born in 70 and can’t complain about my up bringing. Had chores, had to do well in school, left outside all day, and when in public my mom always had a wooden spoon in her purse to beat your ass into submission if you got out of line. (now probably considered felony pre meditated child abuse)I was smallish for my age until late in high school and Mom had a odd since of style how children should dress for school so I learned to fight at an early age.I became a pretty good scrapper and wrestler. Can’t look back and complain.Now dealing with trying to train millennials to do actual skilled labor for my business is impossible.I get mad and tell them their mom didn’t beat them enough, they reply “My mom never beat me”