What's our primary goal as parents?
To make our children happy?
Wrong.
To prepare our children for adulthood and that scary world out there.
Now, of course, it's important for your kids to be happy. But don't lose focus.
You have a responsibility to them and society.
That's why it bugs the shit out of me to see all these parents spoiling their kids at extravagant levels. It is most prevalent with daughters. Let's call it the Princess Effect.
Now, I'm fortunate enough to have fathered a son instead of a "daddy's little princess" and you're probably asking yourself what the hell's set me off on this recent rant.
I saw a commercial recently for "Sweet & Sassy". Sweet & Sassy is a franchise of Salon/Spa's targeted at little girls (or more precisely, their dumb-ass, anything-for-my-little-pumpkin parents) who want that special day of spoiling.
Let the overindulgence begin!
Let's see. Little Madison has so many choices! Which party to pick?
Here's the various packages:
- Glittery Glam Express
- Party Princess
- Pampered Princess
- Diva for a Day
*insert squeal*
Which one to pick? Which one?!!
These packages can include Party-Up-dos, Mini-manicures, pedicures, Make Apps and facials.
Puke.
This is a lazy mother with money's dream!
Oh, yeah. Let's not forget the Pink Limo.
Oh
My
Gawd.
At first, I thought this was a new startup business in the STL area. I found, after doing some research (really), that there's nearly 30 of these things across the country; Texas, Colorado, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and the Dominican Republic.
What? The Dominican Republic? The only guess I have is baseball players spoil the shit out of their little chicas.
Anyway, I don't know why this bugs me so bad.
Maybe because I was married to a woman who refers to herself as a princess. Maybe I'm sickened by all the excess that's going on during these tough financial times (the same entitlement bullshit that put us here in the first place).
Maybe I'm just jealous that I didn't get a ride in a tie fighter for my 8th birthday and had Darth Vader take me out for pizza. Shit. I don't know.
But, I do know that this is some ridiculous shit.
-Darth
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And then some poor sap who makes $50k a year gets stuck with one of these spoiled little bitches for a wife who is never satisfied with anything, runs up credit card debt, gripes her way to getting a house they can't afford and then leaves him for some old wrinkly rich dude who finally treats her like the spoiled whore she is because he's sleeping with his secretary, maid and tax attorney while she is at the friggin little princess beauty art gallery with her spoiled ass daughter. It's amazing how life goes full circle. - The Reverend.
Damn Reverend, did that come from dark place or what!
And people wonder why we have kids moving back in with mom and dad, or have never even left the fold at the ripe old age of 25, 35, 40 even.
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