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Living next door to my neighbor kids these past...7 years (holy crap) has certainly had me ready to rip my hair out more than once...it's amazing how much these kids do NOT know. I'd use the phrase that they're being 'raised' very loosely, oh they know to take showers and get dressed and cook simple things, but I doubt anybody would believe how much common sense stuff they do NOT know because nobody ever bothered to teach them earlier, and when we try to tell them now it's just in one ear and out the other.
The oldest boy, when he was 13 and 14, liked to clean the house, that was how he'd keep himself entertained, but he couldn't figure out WHY you're not supposed to use cleaning products like Pledge to wash your hands with since it cleans!
The girl is 16, in high school, and her knowledge about school's purpose is to go and play games, learning is boring so she'll never need it, so why should she have to work on anything? My mother asked her when she gets her own place (ha ha) and gets cable, how is she going to read the payments to know she's not getting cheated? She don't know and that's the end of that. In fact all the kids despise having to do any kind of school-related work, they were never even taught the sounds of words, so I don't know how they ever learned to read on the first grade basis they are now at 12 and 16, and they think they're doing fine because they can 'fake' it.
They're always complaining that they're bored, well two of them don't care much for TV, they don't have a lot of friends, are often by themselves, and don't like to do anything. My mother explained if they learned how to read right, and they read books they wouldn't be bored because they'd have something to do. Now if you were bored out of your mind EVERY SINGLE DAY, you'd think you'd jump at the idea of doing something different, but their response: BORING! So they'd rather be bored by doing nothing than be bored by doing something.
It is frustrating having to talk to these kids more than just a 'hi' because it quickly becomes apparent how much they've been failed by everyone around them, and they're too set in their ways to learn any differently now, in fact they'll fight tooth and nail against anybody's suggestions.
The oldest boy, when he was 13 and 14, liked to clean the house, that was how he'd keep himself entertained, but he couldn't figure out WHY you're not supposed to use cleaning products like Pledge to wash your hands with since it cleans!
The girl is 16, in high school, and her knowledge about school's purpose is to go and play games, learning is boring so she'll never need it, so why should she have to work on anything? My mother asked her when she gets her own place (ha ha) and gets cable, how is she going to read the payments to know she's not getting cheated? She don't know and that's the end of that. In fact all the kids despise having to do any kind of school-related work, they were never even taught the sounds of words, so I don't know how they ever learned to read on the first grade basis they are now at 12 and 16, and they think they're doing fine because they can 'fake' it.
They're always complaining that they're bored, well two of them don't care much for TV, they don't have a lot of friends, are often by themselves, and don't like to do anything. My mother explained if they learned how to read right, and they read books they wouldn't be bored because they'd have something to do. Now if you were bored out of your mind EVERY SINGLE DAY, you'd think you'd jump at the idea of doing something different, but their response: BORING! So they'd rather be bored by doing nothing than be bored by doing something.
It is frustrating having to talk to these kids more than just a 'hi' because it quickly becomes apparent how much they've been failed by everyone around them, and they're too set in their ways to learn any differently now, in fact they'll fight tooth and nail against anybody's suggestions.
As much as I loved that show I don't think I could recognize any of the songs now.
To hear that constant GULP GULP GULPING is to know the madness that plagued Elizabeth Taylor's character in Suddenly Last Summer as she recalls the ghastly GULPING noises the cannibals made when they ate her cousin Sebastian! If I never have to listen to that kid eat again it'll be TOO SOON!
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