How did you grow up?
Did you have to earn things?
Did you get most everything you wanted?
Were you rewarded for negative behavior?
I wonder. Most of the kids these days are part of this new Generation E. We may be Generation X but I think the new ones coming up, the younger ones, are Generation E. E for entitlement. I'm entitled to have this this and that.
Look around at the Paris's and the Lindsay's and the like. Even the unfamous ones. Gimme gimme gimme. Sad state of affairs. I know I didn't grow up that way. Had to work for what I wanted. Owned (co owned) my first home at 22. Worked very hard for that. Had goals. Was disciplined. Never got that college degree but you know, that's ok. I think I was better for it. I like the way things worked out for me. I'm confident about that. I look at those who keep messing up, and I think, I'm grateful for the way I was raised. Thanks Mom. I can appreciate what I have, and I will pass that along to my children. They will have summer jobs, part time jobs, they will work for what they want and be given nothing they don't work for. I don't want them to grow up like those spoiled stars famous and unfamous. And they won't.
That is one thing I am sure about. And I take every opportunity to say it out loud that I can. Kind of affirms what I know and believe in. How did you grow up?
--J
You cook, you clean, you go to work, you nourish, you love, you scold, you are professional and yet you hang your hat on every dust particle in your home. You are a woman. Some women are Moms and some are not. You are still a woman. We are all made similarly. We are strong.
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