Anyway, further talks today got us all back onto positive territory.
That's the best and most important bit.
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Anyway, further talks today got us all back onto positive territory.
But I've had to look after kids in ICU who have been turned into paraplegics and quadriplegics after car crashes and diving into the shallow end of pools while drunk etc.
ps I'm bewildered why so many of you believe this is "harmless" just as long as nobody was driving. WAKE UP! It is destructive behavour for the boys because alcoholism is a heavy cross to bear. It is potentially destructive for the girls because "single motherhood" ain't what it's cracked up to be. I will leave the "sexual health" aspect alone and only brush on the link between binge drinking and illicit drug use.
LOL! How naive are you... you were 17 once, what did you think they were going to do?
LOL! How naive are you... you were 17 once, what did you think they were going to do?
I'm bewildered why so many of you believe this is "harmless" just as long as nobody was driving. WAKE UP! It is destructive behavour for the boys because alcoholism is a heavy cross to bear.
Sunfish, the big diff between our era and this, is there's more parents' money sloshing around, whether to directly fund the fun, or subsidize everything else while brats booze, toke, tab, and snort. I put the blame fair and square on boomer parents too fuzzy, kewl, and laissez faire to do otherwise. They need to own what their automaton zombie larvae get up to.
That wasn't a cheap **** up. Where did the money come from? I was born DURING the war, not after, so maybe I can absolve myself of all responsibility by saying I'm not a "boomer".?
Bon, this was his first time at home alone. Considering his history of being predictably logical in considering the consequences of defying us, I expected him to do what he said. That he didn't was out of character.
I can't remember why I headed off on this tangent but I present this as evidence of what was considered fun once and what is "blech" today.
Didn't like Liberace?That clip reminds me of why I used to be scared of gay men. Where's Jamie Redfern these days?
I left home when I was 17 (to go to university). And I was going out with school friends drinking when I was 15 or 16 (never parties at my parents' place though - it would have been wrecked). While I was never a huge drinker, there were a number of occasions that reached the vomiting stage, including one particularly wild weekend when I was billeted in another town for a squash tournament and was out with my host on both Friday and Saturday nights partying and hooning around in his car (an old Mini with holes in the floor that always needed push starting) with another 6 or 7 people and many bottles of beer. The worst part of that weekend was I had to play in the finals on Sunday, and boy, was I ever feeling seedy!I find it funny that at 17 it was his very first time home alone.
ps I love loud music.
I believe that a lot of the problem with the youth these days relates to the fact that too many of them have a lot of money. They don't value it because it comes easy. They are not expected to work for it. Centrelink start giving them money (if the parents don't work) from age 15/16. Then those with parents that do work pressure their parents for the same (or more). No wonder the young generation have an entitlement mentality.SF, this is a private school with too many nouveau riche parents.
TBH is a teacher there, so we know what the parents are like.
Wouldn't have been hard for our sprog to have a spare $50-100 lying around.
Though unlike others, that would have taken a month or more to accumulate without our knowledge. He makes around $150 a week for 8 hours work, and there's tips on top we're not supposed to know about.
Maybe my parents were much more trusting in me or stupid (which ever way people decide to choose) but i clearly recall being left alone many times in an old skating rink where we lived upstairs at the age of 8.
Thank g?d for the good old days, what ever your generation.
I believe that a lot of the problem with the youth these days relates to the fact that too many of them have a lot of money. They don't value it because it comes easy.
I find it
curious that the younger generations are always claimed to be lazier, takes more drugs, drinks more, drives more irresponsibly, less manners and so on, whereas the older generations intelligence improves out of sight once the younger generation become parents.
Cheers
Pete
The road toll has been touched on in this thread and I would consider that some of the drivers(pun intended) of the toll are drugs, drink, responsibility and manners, perhaps
worth reading this link.