Your Daily Disappointment?

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  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    @Get_Right Blimey, sounds like your kid doesn't realise how lucky he is.. I'm sure he will one day though. 
  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    For me, I wouldn't say it's daily disappointment, perhaps hourly, but I'm not gonna grumble, good things happen too.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 40,118
    Get_Right said:
    My lazy 20 year old college kid complaining. No job. No student loans. Everything paid for. I have spent over 20k on orthodontics. New Iphone 16. Mom cooks his meals. Single dorm room at college. When I was 20 the last place I wanted to be was home. Get the heck out and start living your life. Go see a show. Go to a club. Get a tattoo or an earring. Go get laid. His generation is so unmotivated and protected.
    I sound like an old man but at some point he needs to just take responsibility for his own life. 
    Similar boat. We’ve talked about this before: the phones. No life. Just watching the fake lives of others on socials. 

    Maddening. 
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,235
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Get_Right said:
    My lazy 20 year old college kid complaining. No job. No student loans. Everything paid for. I have spent over 20k on orthodontics. New Iphone 16. Mom cooks his meals. Single dorm room at college. When I was 20 the last place I wanted to be was home. Get the heck out and start living your life. Go see a show. Go to a club. Get a tattoo or an earring. Go get laid. His generation is so unmotivated and protected.
    I sound like an old man but at some point he needs to just take responsibility for his own life. 
    Similar boat. We’ve talked about this before: the phones. No life. Just watching the fake lives of others on socials. 

    Maddening. 

    It is not so much the phones. I have accepted that place in their lives. It is that they are so unmotivated to do anything. We hand them the path to walk down yet they will not take a step. What is interesting is that my daughter is the exact opposite. 17 with a great job, participating in clubs, totally organized, social, a busy schedule, and has ideas about her future. My son just does not do anything. He cannot even find his socks. Ahhh to be a parent these days. At some point I will get my life back. 
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 40,118
    My youngest is like your daughter. My oldest is the phone zombie. 

    But the scientific evidence clearly shows the incredible detrimental effect phones and specifically, social media engineered for addiction, are having on our society. 

    There are absolutely many factors influencing how this generation behaves, from our helicopter parenting to the state of politics to the sheer monumental task of getting anywhere in our current economic times; fine if you’ve accepted the role phones play in their lives, but downplaying the significance of the affects to me is burying your head in the sand. 
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,235
    I know the effects. I hate it. It is even happening to adults. Take a look around the next time you are on a commuter train, EVERYONE is on their phones. Try reading a book! But what needs to be accepted by a parent is that it is not going away. It is a big part of their lives, like it or not. I am not burying my head in the sand but helping them understand that you need to do A and B and then you can get lost in your phone. They need to learn how to manage it on their own with guidance from the parents. Easier said than done. The other part is taking care of the device. You break it than you may not have a phone for a year. Treat it properly. There are some lessons to be learned.
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,675
    I'm a phone zombie. Tried to move myself from it. And became a youtube zombie. Now I am actively transferring myself back to a Mario kart 8 zombie.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 40,118
    Get_Right said:
    I know the effects. I hate it. It is even happening to adults. Take a look around the next time you are on a commuter train, EVERYONE is on their phones. Try reading a book! But what needs to be accepted by a parent is that it is not going away. It is a big part of their lives, like it or not. I am not burying my head in the sand but helping them understand that you need to do A and B and then you can get lost in your phone. They need to learn how to manage it on their own with guidance from the parents. Easier said than done. The other part is taking care of the device. You break it than you may not have a phone for a year. Treat it properly. There are some lessons to be learned.
    gotcha. 

    yeah, I was at Heart and Cheap Trick a couple weeks back. I was ASTOUNDED at the number of baby boomers who wouldn't put their fucking phones away. And don't get me started on Gen X parents and their insistence on recording every minute of their children's lives. Every event, band recital, dance competitions: PHONES UP. Drives me BATTY. 
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,235
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Get_Right said:
    I know the effects. I hate it. It is even happening to adults. Take a look around the next time you are on a commuter train, EVERYONE is on their phones. Try reading a book! But what needs to be accepted by a parent is that it is not going away. It is a big part of their lives, like it or not. I am not burying my head in the sand but helping them understand that you need to do A and B and then you can get lost in your phone. They need to learn how to manage it on their own with guidance from the parents. Easier said than done. The other part is taking care of the device. You break it than you may not have a phone for a year. Treat it properly. There are some lessons to be learned.
    gotcha. 

    yeah, I was at Heart and Cheap Trick a couple weeks back. I was ASTOUNDED at the number of baby boomers who wouldn't put their fucking phones away. And don't get me started on Gen X parents and their insistence on recording every minute of their children's lives. Every event, band recital, dance competitions: PHONES UP. Drives me BATTY. 

    Yeah its bad. I take a pic or two at any event. And then put it away. I mean do you really need 1000 pics and videos of that event? No you don't. I probably fall into that group of Gen X parents. But I buy the smallest phone. Always a mini. And I rarely use it during events. Technology can be a good thing. But learn the balance. That is my message to my kids.
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,675
    April 17th

    No one wanted to tag along to the Neil Young documentary being shown tonight
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,675
    April 23rd

    Broke up with girlfiend
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 40,118
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    April 23rd

    Broke up with girlfiend
    agnes???? /s
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    I was kind of disappointed PJ radio was radio silent today. 
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,675
    Got fired today. 
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 40,118
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Got fired today. 
    what? shit, dude, that sucks. sorry to hear that
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,378
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Got fired today. 
    Man, sorry to hear that. 
  • We All Believe
    We All Believe Eastchester, NY Posts: 938
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Got fired today. 
    Been there. It fucking sucks. Sorry to hear. Hope you land on your feet soon.
    May your days be long, til kingdom come.
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,978
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Got fired today. 

    Omg, that's awful. I'm really sorry - it's traumatic to be fired. 
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 40,118
    PJ_Soul said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Got fired today. 

    Omg, that's awful. I'm really sorry - it's traumatic to be fired. 
    I was only in danger of getting fired once. Factory job, team lead was this old battle ax that would write you up if you put your employee code in seconds, SECONDS, late. So she told me one more time and I'm gone. Well, it happened, so I quit before she got there. 

    But I've definitely heard it is traumatic. So sorry this  happened to you dude. 
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • CarryTheZero
    CarryTheZero Posts: 3,568
    That really sucks. So sorry. 😞 

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