Must have for Christmas 2010...
Cellar with tons of ramen noodles, rice, beans and other staples to help ease the coming crash.
http://www.nowpublic.com/health/planned-parenthood-says-give-gift-abortion-christmas?ref=nf
I’m starting to worry already about creating a spoiled brat in my daughter. She’s only 18 months old but I’m already trying to think of ways to teach her the difference between needs and wants. Wants primarily being what you get by earning them.
I’m easy. I just want photography stuff.
here is the thing.... When I was growing up I wanted all the neat stuff. My folks, God bless them, did the best they could but money was always tight... I was thankful with what I got... and I never got all I wanted. Kids today are spoiled rotten. You see it in the stores when they throw tantrums because they are not getting their way and the poor parents are completely in a panic to corect the behavior cause some liberal nazi may be watching and you can’t spank a child in public any more without it being called abuse...
Kids are going to have to learn what I was taught. “You cant always get what you want”
No such thing
It would be FAR better for the 9 year-old to learn that he can’t have everything he wants. Get him some good books instead....and start planning to DO things with him.
Maybe teach him how to earn the money he needs to buy something (Economics 101).
I’m a grandma entering my seventh decade of life and I have a DSi. In Jan I was in an automobile accident and I believe that dsi saved my husband’s sanity. Unlimited sudoku, tetris, etc, etc... And it is so much better in the drs office than those 4 year old magazines with the good recipes already torn out. I do need a high level of entertainment for my brain cells sometimes, besides it makes me the coolest grame. Especially with my 4 yr old grandson, who no one thought he could figure it out. Took him one afternoon, and now he says, ‘don’t need no help’. Mine also has math problems, language apps and brain testing skills. Gives your score as your ‘brain age.’ Mine is better at somethings than others.
i have a 4 yr old who yells “i want one of those” every single commercial she sees. could be an ad for a toy, a car, a brand of toilet paper, doesn’t matter, she wants one. just proves my theory that anyone between the ages of 2 and 5 is completely insane.
the teen, on the other hand, is stating that he wants cash.
they will both get whatever hubbymayhem and i decide to give them. and knowing my kids, they will love whatever it is.