Graduation pix are an arm and a leg so we are taking our own pix of Nathanael- he protested the whole "senior picture" thing for so long I just decided to take our own with our own cameras and computer and nice paper. The wonders of technology. I figure we will do announcements similarly, using one of Nathanael's fonts.
Graduation gift ideas????
1.Laptop.
2.Phone. He has resisted the whole phone thing but I want a phone that takes pictures and gets good reception in cornfields. I can add him to my plan for ten bucks a month but I want to be able to talk to him anytime.
I am going through empty nest/empty wallet syndrome. I am crying a lot because ...I am putting my infant in a cornfield. Which is worse, the wolves taking your baby or your baby growing up as wolf boy? As they feed upon the mind of my son...I want my son to have charge of his own mind. I don't want any university sabotaging it. I want him to use THEIR knowledge, not the other way around. The only other I want in charge of his thoughts is God.
posted by Ann @ 6:01 AM
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8 Comments:
I think you are giving yourself too much credit and him too little credit for all of this "indoctrination". He's already way smarter than you and doesn't listen to you as much as you may think. When I was 18 I heard about zero of what the parents thought. It's a university, not David Koresh. You're not sending him away for deprogramming. The people who will influence him the most won't be the ones educating him, it will be the regular day to day people he meets by chance. I know it hurts but its time to kick this one out of the nest.
Who is this, is this Dan or Dave?
Whoever it is, you're right. But yes it hurts. Wait until you do it.
When I was 18 I listend to 0% of anyone either but that's not a good thing. He actually isn't as influenced by peers as he is his professors and people he reads- authors, etc. Trust me on this one. He doesn't cave to peer pressure- never has. That is unique to him and not something you or I ever had. I was influenced by peers but a lot of what I did, bad or good, was just plain rebellion because I wanted to, not because of what someone else coaxed me into doing. If I didn't want to do something, I just said no. But if I wanted to, I took it upon myself, whether it was a good or bad thing, to seek it out and do it. Bad me.
Ann
I think this must be Dan. But he's way smarter than YOU too.
nope, not me sista. please clear the accused of all wrongdoing.
Dan
So is it Dave? Davebo? Davearino? I'm babysitting, right?
OK Dave you admitted it was you. When I hear YOUR voice saying this, it sounds a little nicer than most people, because I know you're so laid back...but then again you're not...
About "deprogramming"- some places ARE scary and will do some damage. Just look up Ward Churchill (Quote: "All those people in the twin towers were just little Eichmans and Mengeles."). But those are the extreme exceptions.
One thing I got tired of hearing in some university classes was how oppressed I am because I'm female. I'm not oppressed, dammit. I feel FINE and I don't have penis envy.
Ann
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