Hah he's a good man. I don't mind paying for my son to major in History/English/Philosophy/Poli Sci if I know he's going the professional route afterwards (banking/law/medicine/whatever). Seriously if you want to draw pictures of building all day, talk about Kant, read up on the civil war - well you can do that on the side.

-Rudey
--This might not be true if I have a daughter; she'd get married off and won't carry the family name.

I was lucky enough to have the parental unit pay for my education. I think most Asian parents pay for their kids' education.

My bf's parents (caucasian) paid for his private school, undergrad, and part of his law school education. You don't want to know what he estimated his parents paid for all of that. He's very thankful and it's not like he's spoiled in a total sense. He's worked since he was 13 years old. He's learned the value of money. (he saved it, not spent it on booze, etc). The bf also subscribes to Rudey's thoughts about a kid's education.

This thread has been getting me more and more p*ssed off.

If I decide I want to pay for my kids college and don't want them to have to work -- it's nobody's freaking business but my family's.

For all you know, they wore rags to high school and walked four miles back and forth in knee deep snow -- uphill both ways because we were saving the money for college.

Let's get off the high horse about being spoiled. Some are and some aren't. Once again, it's none of your business.

Can you tell I'm having a very stressful day?

LOL I don't see anyone saying anything about how people shouldn't be paying for their children's education...I just see people in this thread talking about how they feel others think they're spoiled and exposing some sensitive skin.

-Rudey
--Relax old man before you pop an aorta.

DeltAlum, calm down! :)

If you raised your kids well, even if they were spoiled, they wouldn't be acting like the brats some of us (such as my earlier post) have talked about. So no one's ripping on you or other parents who can afford to do so much financially for their children. It's the children who have to act like schmucks about it that end up p!ssing off people.

If today doesn't get better, that could be a concern.

Seriously, what ticks me off is a fair amount of subtle and not so subtle "holier than thou" attitudes from those who are not as fortunate as those who are getting more from their parents.

(Most of that was earlier in the thread, I guess)

Have a nice day!

Butt sex

-Rudey
--Perfect remedy.

Is this a fixation?

Butt sex.

-Rudey
--Yes

woo woo.

It's not so much what you have, but how you behave.

I don't want to listen to people bitch and moan all day long about how bad they have...even if they do have it pretty bad because there is always someone who has it worse.

And then there are the people who have everything and take it all for granted and then bitch and moan when their friends can't go out and party with them ebcause they don't have the money or they have to go to work.

It's all in the way a person acts.

You win the thread.

I have a problem with the vasty majority of posts in this thread. To tell you the truth, many of you sound extremely narrow-minded. Yes, maybe YOU are able to handle school, work, etc. and graduate in four years. But what happens if you happen to have quite a few medical problems and there's no way that you can graduate in four years.....and what if you have a learning disability that makes it difficult for you to have a job and school at the same time??
Sometimes its NOT as cut and dry as most of you seem to think it is. Sometimes, there are things that complicate the situation!

AND

Yes, I appreciate that my college fund pays for books, school, food, rent, cell phone bill, sorority....and I appreciate even more the fact that my parents realize that its going to take me more than four years to graduate, and they are still helping support me, even though I'm not in school right now!

Hi Damasa,

My rants weren't aimed at anyone in particular, but a lot of people in general. I didn't go back to look -- maybe my post followed one of yours -- but were not in response to any particular post.

My apologies. I thought it was in reference to my post.