just think how happy the silly cow will be when he moves back home with his useless degree for the rest of her life
Posted on 09/19/2015 9:42:38 PM PDT by Huntress
My children would know better than to do that to me because I would just egg them on.
Carbon dioxide? I would build a fire pit with an eternal flame.
Dolphins? I would serve tuna steaks every night.
Fuel economy? Hey Son, how do you like my ‘71 Cadillac?
Cory’s BFF (my term, not Cory’s) had already taken on the role of eco-warrior. He worked on a successful campaign to ban plastic bags in our town—Fairfax, California, that hippie haven—and lobbied against GMOs. He drove an electric car; once, when my son was a passenger, it ran out of charge on a rural road eight miles from home. (I had to go pick him up.)
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Spewing carbon all the way. Should have made him walk.
Cut his allowance and don’t pay for his tuition. If he doesn’t want to enjoy the fruits of his parents’ lifestyle he is welcome to go it alone. Obviously she didn’t teach him the Ten Commandments - this dumb kid doesn’t know the Honor Thy Father and Mother part and should be taught a lesson. When he’s poor and on his own he’ll see it’s not so easy to be “sustainable” which is really something for rich people not poor people who call it subsistance living.
He’s his mama’s boy-— a product of her lieberalism incarnate in him. Save the planet— blah blah. Mother Nature is quite capable of surviving with or without help from humanity.
“This woman didn’t raise an eco-warrior so much as a spoiled brat”
Exactly right!
The next day was a Friday and she was running late as usual, and came to me said we gotta go, I have to go to school. I told her that I had been thinking about what she had said the previous evening and told her that I was going to work from home that day in and effort to reduce our carbon footprint. She said, “But Dad, I have a Bio test today, we have to go.” I told her that saving the planet was more important than her Bio test. She was livid, and called some friends to see if she could get a ride. No luck. She stayed home that Friday.
I suggested she spend the weekend doing some research on global warming and energy use and see if what her teacher seemed right. She did and spent two days writing a paper for her history teacher that debunked human caused global warming. It was not an assignment but she gave it to the teacher anyway. It came back with a note at the top that said “I'll have to think about this.”
I seem to remember that she was able to take her Bio test on Monday, but the perspective and discernment she gained was more valuable than anything.
Kids don’t get to be kids anymore. They are taught to fret and worry and be hypersensitive about every aspect of life. When I was a kid, tornado drills were about as bad as it got. Add the gender morphing sex “education” and anti-history and social experimentation and bullying and cell phone “life” - good God existence has become way overcomplicated. It’s exhausting.
The battery runs out on their EV 8 miles from home and, instead of making the boys walk home and learn a tough lesson about the price of being an Eco-warrior, Momma drives the gasoline engine car to pick them up? She’s nuts. But she passed it down to the kid.
Make him live without clean water, any store-bought food, any pharmaceuticals, or toiletries, no transportation of any kind sans feet, and no electronic gadgets of any kind. See how fast he comes crawling back begging to be readmitted to the 21st century.
To top it all off, he’s going to college three thousand miles from home and he bitches about an asparagus spear from Mexico? The pollution from ONE transcontinental flight will more that wipe out any of the “savings” he accumulated over many years.
These people are Marin County morons with no common sense at all...except for Mom wanting the baby out of the house. The kid needs a stint in the Marine Corps, but they wouldn’t take the pimply faced 100 pound weakling.
I do not believe I’ve ever heard the term “self-righteous” used in a positive context.
She raised an a$$hole. My youngest started on that crap by coming home and stating that he was now a vegitarian. That night I took the whole family out for BBQ. The sight of his sisters drooling sauce reversed that unfortunate decision.
just think how happy the silly cow will be when he moves back home with his useless degree for the rest of her life
Electro Shock Therapy? Lobotomy? Then he’d just be happy all the time!
I hope this is satire.
If not, she’s a doormat who deserves all the abuse that comes her way from her brat and anyone else.
I’ll go you one better. What a crappy family. They need a life.
Excellent response to an excellent essay.
The writer, Ronnie Cohen, is clear and reasonable. Yet while I was enjoying the essay I kept wondering, where is the father? Where is he? Why is the kid such a punk to a his mother and disrespectful of the house?
Christians make the best “stewards” of the earth and trust the Father to guard the ecosystems, zone layers, fluorocarbons and creeping things.
I think boys should have to work a year in construction before they go off to college.
The acorn don’t fall far from the tree.
Well done!
This entire story is pathetic.
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