Don't worry, in another forty or fifty years, all the Baby Boomersand"The Greatest Generation" will be gone. Meanwhile, this, from a new interview with Bill Clinton: I mean, all of this "the greatest generation is World War II?" -- it just happens that they're the most horrible parents in human history, right?
People -- especially conservative Tea Party types it seems -- like to talk about the great sacrifices they're willing to make for their children. They'll do anything to insure them a better future. Well, anything except pay-up in taxes to reduce the deficit and the debt. Anything except invest in schools and teachers. Anything except take the smallest step to slow climate change.
Interestingly, a certain amount of parenting is now expected of the faculty of college students. We are expected to nurture and support and oversee them, especially the freshmen. I can see tracking down a student who hasn't been to a class in a week to make sure she's not in a suicidal depression but it's not my nature to treat an 18-year-old like an 8-year-old. I don't have an attendance policy. Does it make students more likely to skip? Yes. Is that my problem? NO. But some of my colleagues are horrified by this attitude.
Don't forget paying taxes for transportation and infrastructure, and developing alternative fuel sources so that we aren't dependent on foreign countries that we secretly kinda dislike.
I don't know, Bill...growing up during the Great Depression and winning World War II only to have your kids turn on you despite providing for them greater access to education then any generation before vs. the boomer legacy of sexual irresponsibility and drug use...that's a tough call...
My husband is still convinced that you should have meat at every meal, but is willing to settle for cereal on weekday mornings. Remember when cereal was bad, a breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast was so much better?
Every generation does what it has to do. It's just that some generations have to be brought to that point kicking and screaming before they finally do it.
Those stories are true. Add to them stories about parents who want to plan their child's course schedule and parents who want to set up their chid's internships. True story: I am on the board that hears academic integrity cases. A plagiarism case involved extensive copying from a "paper mill" website. The student's defense was that her mother wrote that part.
"Honor your father and your mother". Let's just say there's a reason god had to make that a Commandment.
People -- especially conservative Tea Party types it seems -- like to talk about the great sacrifices they're willing to make for their children. They'll do anything to insure them a better future. Well, anything except pay-up in taxes to reduce the deficit and the debt. Anything except invest in schools and teachers. Anything except take the smallest step to slow climate change.
Interestingly, a certain amount of parenting is now expected of the faculty of college students. We are expected to nurture and support and oversee them, especially the freshmen. I can see tracking down a student who hasn't been to a class in a week to make sure she's not in a suicidal depression but it's not my nature to treat an 18-year-old like an 8-year-old. I don't have an attendance policy. Does it make students more likely to skip? Yes. Is that my problem? NO. But some of my colleagues are horrified by this attitude.
This is good news for John McCain?
Don't forget paying taxes for transportation and infrastructure, and developing alternative fuel sources so that we aren't dependent on foreign countries that we secretly kinda dislike.
I've already blamed my parents for all of my problems, so there.
Well, wipe it off then....
I don't know, Bill...growing up during the Great Depression and winning World War II only to have your kids turn on you despite providing for them greater access to education then any generation before vs. the boomer legacy of sexual irresponsibility and drug use...that's a tough call...
My husband is still convinced that you should have meat at every meal, but is willing to settle for cereal on weekday mornings. Remember when cereal was bad, a breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast was so much better?
Every generation does what it has to do. It's just that some generations have to be brought to that point kicking and screaming before they finally do it.
Buttermilk makes great biscuits. Making someone drink it straight up is child abuse.
Those stories are true. Add to them stories about parents who want to plan their child's course schedule and parents who want to set up their chid's internships. True story: I am on the board that hears academic integrity cases. A plagiarism case involved extensive copying from a "paper mill" website. The student's defense was that her mother wrote that part.
Yeah, because Riley, Arielle, and Jack were soooo old!
bill bill bill, newt's out there again. newt's floundering. newt's a much better target than oldz on scooters.
go for it man!
i am a genxr therefore i hate boomers and i have no job.
also, my greatest generation grandmother was a class A bitch and got alzheimers.
these things are not related, but they are true.
What part of the South are you from?