My son's 18th birthday wish list

Nimeth

You know who your son reminds me a little of victory? Calvin, from the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes (brilliant strip btw).

victory

yep that will be him on his birthday morning, OMG he is going to be so hard done by:rotfl::D

victory

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Lotus-eater

Honestly your son needs his head bashing about a bit.

Have you really spelled it out to him what real life (ie his life) is like. That's he's not going to get this stuff from you EVER!

victory

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balletshoes

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

What other parents/mugs do or not do for their kids is their business. Your business is what you can reasonably afford.
Sounds like he doesn't really deserve anything from what you've described. Whatever you do probably won't be enough, so I suggest you give very serious thought to not giving him anything. Then, he'll have a proper reason to pout and sulk.

yep, agree with this. If your son is only prepared to accept whats on his list, and nothing less, there doesn't seem to be much point getting him anything else (which you can afford) does there? Maybe make that point when he gets his card and cake on his birthday .

I wouldn't expect my child to want to spend their 18th birthday with me to be honest, but seeing them before they went out would be nice.

Gillyx

I'm 22, and I only understood just how much my parents sacrificed for me, when I was about 18/19. As a teenager you just don't realise how often your parents go without to give you. OP your son will grow out of it, it just takes time and a bit longer for males I think.

I moved away from my dad about 4 months ago and I miss him every day, and appreciate now everything he done for me even 5 months ago, nothing money related but just every day things that made my life easier, that now I have to do myself, I realise what a generous man he really is.

Nimeth

I'm curious to know what phone he did have before it went in the wash?

If I were in your shoes, I'd get him a BlackBerry, but I'd get him a 7250, one of the first ones that had a colour screen. Costs about £50 off ebay. Hand it to his ungrateful harris on his 18th and tell him "I know you wanted a BlackBerry sooooo much, but this is all I could afford so it's what you're getting."

Btw, I have one of those BlackBerry's, it may be "old" and "out-of-date" but it does me just fine!

pelirocco

victory wrote: »

I wouldn't go as far as to say I am a bad parent, my son has very good qualities and very bad ones and the bad ones are trying to be someone else, richer, flashier, more I want without trying to contribute to it, more showy off our back, we as parents never created that, try being at school and not spending one day without another kid there showing off what he has, taunting what he will get for his birthday, gloating about what his xmas presents are going to be, I am sure my son was not dragged up, he was raised to be polite etc but is needy more than my generation or any other because everyone else has got what he does not have.

What a load of rubbish , that sounds like one of the excuses spouted by the looters recently

We have always been in the position to be able to buy our kids x , y or z , but its never urned them into demanding monsters , quite the opposite tbh . I dont know what the secret is .or even if there is one

I would never dream to moan about them on a forum , or even to anyone in real life , its all about mutual respect

victory

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