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In reply to the discussion: Father teaches daughter a lesson about facebook... [View all]johnnie
(23,616 posts)I know it's more in vogue these days to "expect", but in my day there wasn't much to get. My parents gave me food, clothes and shelter. Cell phones, computers, big screen tvs and all that crap wasn't part of it. I think that many people (I'm guessing people like you) think that people owe them stuff, I wasn't raised that way and it's probably wrong, I guess that kids deserve to get things and stuff and lay on their dead asses and expect the world owes them shit. I just wasn't brought up that way.
I was lucky to get a quarter to get some ice cream from the truck when it came down my street. I'm only 47 so it's not like I lived in the depression, but many of my friends lived the same way. If I wanted Levis instead of the Wranglers my dad got me I had to come up with the few dollars more. I didn't live without, but I sure the hell didn't get everything I wanted because the other kids got it.
We ate beans and weenies, had four of us kids in one bedroom and slept in the hot August heat because Air conditioning was never even heard of until I was 12 years old.
This poor poor child had her computer taken away, oh no...life is a drag. That's what kills me about these people here at DU, most of them have no clue what life is really like. They live in a la la land of unicorns and rainbows. Life is real and it happens. This guy is just trying to raise his daughter and so many people on this site are giving him shit because they are able to judge based off of a video.