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[a_time_slip]

In my day, kids had respect!

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[vito-the-mook.livejournal.com]

And you walked ten miles to school! Uphill!

... Both ways!

[a_time_slip]

Six miles, actually, and when it was warm we didn't always wear shoes.

[vito-the-mook.livejournal.com]

Uh huh. And I'll bet you were glad about it.

[know-how-u-feel.livejournal.com]

You sound like my dad. I mean it's not wrong. I'd never yell at my parents the way my little second cousins yell but I think that has more to do with my cousins not acting grown themselves so how are their kids going to know better?

[a_time_slip]

Sounds about right. Did your Dad raise you better than your cousins were raised? That's what happens when you spoil kids too much, they just repeat the cycle.

[know-how-u-feel.livejournal.com]

Actually I was probably the spoiled one. I mean we have more money and I'm an only child but my parents earned their money. They gave me whatever I wanted but I wasn't allowed to do whatever I wanted. For starters my dad is a politician so if my dad didn't skin me alive for acting up his campaign manager would have.

[memoryskeeper.livejournal.com]

Respect for what, exactly?

[a_time_slip]

For everything! We didn't throw stuff on the ground, or waste. We spoke to elders with respect and listened to them.

[memoryskeeper.livejournal.com]

All of you? Really?

[Not that she ever had a lot of experience with kids, but she sort of finds that hard to believe.]

[valkyrguardian.livejournal.com]

What are you, 16?

[a_time_slip]

No. I am... In my twenties. That's old enough to complain about kids, isn't it?

[valkyrguardian.livejournal.com]

Maybe when you're in yer thirties.

[ofdrumsthesound.livejournal.com]

. . . *Laughs.*

[a_time_slip]

You're laughing because you're older than me, aren't you? I was a very respectful kid and am now very well rounded.

[Well, she can dream, can't she?]

[ofdrumsthesound.livejournal.com]

Right, right, I'm sure you were.

[vito-the-mook.livejournal.com]

And you walked ten miles to school! Uphill!

... Both ways!

[a_time_slip]

Six miles, actually, and when it was warm we didn't always wear shoes.

[know-how-u-feel.livejournal.com]

You sound like my dad. I mean it's not wrong. I'd never yell at my parents the way my little second cousins yell but I think that has more to do with my cousins not acting grown themselves so how are their kids going to know better?

[a_time_slip]

Sounds about right. Did your Dad raise you better than your cousins were raised? That's what happens when you spoil kids too much, they just repeat the cycle.

[memoryskeeper.livejournal.com]

Respect for what, exactly?

[a_time_slip]

For everything! We didn't throw stuff on the ground, or waste. We spoke to elders with respect and listened to them.

[valkyrguardian.livejournal.com]

What are you, 16?

[a_time_slip]

No. I am... In my twenties. That's old enough to complain about kids, isn't it?

[ofdrumsthesound.livejournal.com]

. . . *Laughs.*

[a_time_slip]

You're laughing because you're older than me, aren't you? I was a very respectful kid and am now very well rounded.

[Well, she can dream, can't she?]