Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Generali

hjd wrote: »

I think there is definitely a trend towards helicopter parenting. How do the little darlings cope when out in the real world? Do their parents still act as alarm clocks and also fight their battles for them?

There were apparently always a couple of people that turned up for grad/intern interviews at Goldman Sachs with Mummy in tow and I know for a fact that Goldmans HR regularly receives terse letters from the parents of rejected candidates.

Let's see what Martin thinks...:money:

What's that Martin? That's not a very nice word to use.

michaels

Generali wrote: »

Chozza is no good for a job like that. Speed is the way to go.

We bow to your superior experience on that one.

Nikkster

hjd wrote: »

Do their parents still act as alarm clocks and also fight their battles for them?

I wish! (I am neither little, not a darling though!)

I remember asking my parents for help with something maths-related. Can't recall whether A level, GCSE or well before that. They were hopeless (my dad was an accountant so I'd hoped he could do numbers...). That was the first (I can remember) and last time I asked for help.

I was offered financial assistance with my railings - which I accepted on the basis that I could use the money towards doing something else with the house. I then heard that my sibling had asked whether I was going to be 'helped out'... so I declined

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just worry about the big stuff.

Yeah, where we come from is so trivial in the grand scheme of things!

Joking aside, I agree with PN. Good to share that there are other interpretations/ beliefs, but she'll make up her own mind in time.


Oh, and belated Happy Birthday Ivyleaf! :j

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

When I read that I was thinking along the lines of "My dearest, darling .... "

Then I twigged.

Nope, although I'm useless at that sort of stuff too.

I'm a 'get on and do it' sort of person, and absolutely hate putting stuff on paper. In fact, I don't think we've ever bid for this contract, because we've always known people that are involved, and just been asked to come onto it.

I'm still convinced a certain person is trying to quietly get rid of us, however we'll see what happens

ivyleaf

GDB2222 wrote: »

There's nothing to apologise for. You didn't offend me. In fact, I reread your post and I still can't see anything wrong with it!

Oh good! it was just that when I re-read it, it seemed a bit curt, but obviously I was over-thinking it

Re the creationism thing - when I was seven I asked my teacher during the Scripture class one day how it was that the Bible said one thing about how we come to be here, yet Science said something else.

He suggested that was a question better asked in a Science lesson....so at the next Science lesson I asked him again....and he suggested it would be better suited to a Scripture lesson.....I felt cheated, but poor chap, he must have been only about 25 himself. (And his handwriting was worse than mine into the bargain.)

michaels

Nikkster wrote: »

Joking aside, I agree with PN. Good to share that there are other interpretations/ beliefs, but she'll make up her own mind in time.

Hope you are right, the RC approach seems to be to indoctrinate young and often in the hope that they will have 'faith' before they are old enough to apply rational thought to the whole thing. Apologies if any NP are offended, I know faith is a topic best avoided on the NPT.

kabayiri

michaels wrote: »

Hope you are right, the RC approach seems to be to indoctrinate young and often in the hope that they will have 'faith' before they are old enough to apply rational thought to the whole thing. Apologies if any NP are offended, I know faith is a topic best avoided on the NPT.

We of the RC persuasion don't mind a bit of ribbing; after all that's why Father Ted was invented

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

I find the hardest bit is turning my ill-formed, convoluted sentences into something that might come out of the mind of an 11 year old. Only good thing is that I won't let DD use my ideas unless she shows she understands them which means a paragraph can turn into a helf hour learning session so she is beginning to think it is quicker and easier just to do it herself.

Last night I had a slight surprise when she suggested that creationsim must be true because it was in the bible - I mean I've nothing against sending the kids to a church school in the hope they will gain morals and a desire to be nice to people but when they start believing it things become more challenging. Thus we had to have a lecture on how even Christians understood that in many ways bible stories are parables not supposed to be taken at face value. I guess the Catholic church does have form when it comes to supressing original thought.

It'll all be fine. They're eventually taught that six-day genesis stuff is a metaphor. My Dad used to explain that the garden of Eden was the switch from hunter-gathering to agriculture and property ownership.

I worked in a faith college. No trouble teaching the big bang or evolution. Except from some of the non-RC students whose parents had sent their kids there thinking it would teach literal fundamentalism, which it didn't.

GDB2222

kabayiri wrote: »

We of the RC persuasion don't mind a bit of ribbing; after all that's why Father Ted was invented

That show does not deal with faith at all, if I remember correctly. It is all about the outrageous characters and the things they get up to, but their faith is never questioned.

CKhalvashi

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