I Come From Laos

Someone in my class says they spend $900 average per kid for Christmas.  They have 4 kids.  WTH?  $900.00!? He said he grew up poor and now that he can he chooses to spoil is children.  What good comes from spoiling your children?  You’re just creating little monsters that will never be satisfied in life. They are all under 10 but when they hit teenagerdom this whole thing is going to blow up in his face.

QOTD: “And here we have another interesting parenting phenomenon: The creation of the Best Friend Parent. You can normally find the Best Friend Parent cleaning her child’s room while bragging on the phone to her friends that her daughter tells her everything. Her daughter can be found behind a shed at the city park getting pearl necklaces from half the school football team while simultaneously chugging from a bottle of cheap vodka. But hey! At least she can toke up with her Mother later and discuss the experience! After all, they have that kind of a relationship.”
From http://www.violentacres.com/archives/62/early-christmas-for-the-ingrate