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Originally Posted by JeffersonStKKG
My Super Sweet 16 is one of my guiltiest pleasures!!! I did, however, cringe while watching an episode that took place in my "neck of the woods." The episode was during season 2, I believe, and it was Sophia's party. After the show first aired, my favorite radio station was tearing Sophia (and her mother) a "new-one" for the over-indulgence and bratty, whiney attitude. It's hard enough as it is to fight off stereotypes when asked where I'm from. The episode was pretty darn funny, though---she couldn't fit into her dress, she freaked out when her grandmother said she was getting a used car and, finally, the classic quote: "DON'T SAY THE WORLD DOESN'T REVOLVE AROUND ME BECAUSE TODAY IT DOES!!!" 
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I have to admit it's a guilty pleasure of mine too, but it also makes me so mad sometimes I can't watch it. Some of those kids are HORRIBLE. You know Veruca Salt? Charlie and the Chocolate factory? They should be given some of that treatment. And their parents shouldn't let them feel like they are ENTITLED to get things totally their way, all the time. When I got that attitude, I lost whatever it was that I was acting bratty about. My car? I got my dad's old one to use at 17 for THEIR convenience (as in mom never got groceries, picked up my brothers, or ran errands anymore...I did all that while she was at work) and when I got mad that they were trying to take it for a month after my first speeding ticket my mom told me it was most certainly NOT my car, it was my dad's car, and that attitude cost me an extra month, missy. And I was expected to pay them back by babysitting or working for my mom, but had to get rides because I couldn't use the car even then. Took me the entire two months...and it wasn't an expensive ticket. Never did that again.I can't imagine being given a new sports car at 16, much less two like some of them get. I can rant forever.
I'm sorry, if your parents spend massive amounts of money and time throwing you a party, when they don't have to, you can shut UP and quit whining. GAH.