<p>Obviously a ■■■■■ looking to stir things up. It’s pretty amazing some people don’t have better things to do with their time.</p>
<p>Obviously a ■■■■■.</p>
<p>so how have everyone’s summers been going?</p>
<p>6 weeks left til move in! too long, yet too short.</p>
<p>Answers to a few Posts:</p>
<p>Post # 76 anberlin, I’m going to be starting a new thread on Parent forum called “Li’l Party Animals” … look for it soon</p>
<p>Post # 77 THL, my daughter is 28 yrs old, married and lives in Westerly, Rhode Island with her computer-engineer husband. She works in a medical field and seems to be quite happy both personally and professionally</p>
<p>My son finished his higher education in south Florida and now lives in Del Ray Beach FL in a beautiful house he bought with and shares with his gorgeous fiancee … he’s 31 yrs old, and works in computer graphics & design</p>
<p>And the most amazing thing about my two kids – in fact people who only know me casually find hard to believe because it’s so foreign to anything they’ve ever heard of before – both of my kids moved out of my home shortly after age 18 and have lived on their own since, and both have been totally self-supporting by their very early 20’s</p>
<p>In contrast, I know several couples who have sold their homes and moved into someplace much smaller because they can’t get their 30-something kids to leave … and their kids are still totally dpendent on what author Thomas J. Stanley calls “economic out-patient care”</p>
<p>THL wrote : " You sure it applies to all parents, including yourself? "</p>
<p>You obviously either never took a course in Logic in college or you slept through it</p>
<p>There is an advanced principle in logic which – to put in layman’s plain English – states the an exception to a Rule / Law doesn’t negate the whole Rule / Law; while an exception to a Theory can negate the entire Theory</p>
<p>So if you ever saw an apple fall UP , the entire Theory of Gravitation would be negated</p>
<p>OTOH , the fact that Danny Devito is shorter than Gisele Bundchen doesn’t negate the General Rule that ’ Most men are taller than most women "</p>
<p>So of course what I wrote doesn’t apply to my own kids … my kids are both successful whereas most kids these days suffer from what is euphemistically known as “failure to launch” [ there was even a movie by this name on this very subject ]</p>
<p>@Shannon. - it seems as if you have no ties to UCSB. Just curious how/why it is that you found your way to posting on this forum</p>
<p>And your kids are the exception to the Rule/Law whereas we aren’t?
I’m not sure how you found your way onto this forum but you should just try to find a way out…</p>
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<p>Cool, because I certainly wasn’t raised as if I was “God’s gift” either. . .</p>
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<p>May I ask, what your intentions are in posting in this thread?</p>
<p>EDIT: Never mind, I find the gist of your intentions [url=<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/1191191-recommended-reading-parents-lil-party-animals.html]here[/url”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/1191191-recommended-reading-parents-lil-party-animals.html]here[/url</a>].</p>
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<p>I don’t see how a thread that went very off-topic after the first fourth of the posts would make a good poster-child of your concerns. </p>
<p>Find a better thread to vilify.</p>
<p>^Anger. . .
Unleash your inner Nine-Tailed Fox, haha.</p>
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<p>Nah, I wasn’t angry lol. </p>
<p>I share several concerns with that poster; however, like I said earlier, I feel that she could have used a better thread to feed her fire.</p>
<p>True enough. A gold sticker for you ^_^</p>
<p>this was by far the most awkward thread I’ve ever encountered, I can’t even imagine adults–moms even–to exist with such holier than thou attitudes. Is this real life?</p>
<p>@shannon I’m sorry that your friends have reared such terribly incompetent kids but I don’t think you should make such powerful generalizations. Students’ tendencies change from location to location; maybe you’ve lived in a no-good hick town with college students who have no ambitions and just drink/smoke/party but others haven’t.</p>
<p>I think “awkward” is the wrong word, unless if you’re referring to Shannon’s post lol. . .</p>
<p>oh yes, that’s exactly what I was referring to.</p>
<p>My mistake then</p>
<p>Anyways, going back off-topic:</p>
<p>My Amazon Prime membership ended. No more free two-day shipping on my books and whatever random tidbits I buy. . .</p>
<p>Sad, I am. </p>
<p>):</p>
<p>I used mine today for the first time to buy a small iHome, but I find it hard to buy things using Prime, since they usually cost more.</p>
<p>True. Some items are cheaper without Prime, you have to do a little shopping around .__.</p>
<p>I found out I lost 5 lbs during summer session. lol</p>
<p>I’m pretty mad and I’m going to rant to the financial aid office tomorrow because I’m being charged for FSSP when I cancelled. It makes my blood boil…seriously…</p>
<p>Financial aid office is always late on their s___.</p>
<p>Very infuriating, I know.</p>