Are you okay?
I think so.. what did you pick up on in there?
You don't need to justify your fashionable and trendy vacations to me.
It just seems like a very strange argument to make, that working class people can't afford to educate their own children, but they have plenty of money for fashionable and trendy shit.
Hmm... I do believe you have picked up on my anti-fashionable & anti-trendy stance and are trying to antagonize me ol' chap.
I'm the least fashionable or trendy guy I know.. whole family is. I do have a pair of Puma shoes though.
Maybe you're talking about the souvenirs.. my son chose a pair of chopsticks with owls on them, my daughter picked a Donald Duck doll. They each got a tshirt too I think. Big spendin' that.
If you read my post about Disney in Dragline's thread, about how posh my family is and how we live it up at Disneyland resorts, keep in mind that whenever I brag here it's always with a great deal of self-deprecation.
But there I go justifying shit again eh?
My argument wasn't about expenses, so I'm not sure where you're coming from. If a person can read and has decent wits about him, he can learn anything. I do splurge on an internet connection, which my son could use - on his own even - to learn whatever he fancies. It isn't about cost at all, it's about balance.
To counteract that, I teach him what their agenda is, to be mindful of it and how to avoid falling into the groupthink trap.
Just curious...
Does your kid really "get" it, or is he in that stage of "yeah, ok dad, gotta go!" as he's on his way out the door?
No- he gets it. His mom has complained to me that I say too much shit to him about politics, cops, corruption, the slanted history he is taught in school, etc. Maybe I am saying too much.. my daughter commonly points to police cars when we're out and asks "Is that a good cop or a
bad cop?"