No Kens, my cousin is a lawyer and a very successful guy with his own law firm. I have to say that his parents were really a pretty wacky ” pair and the kids had their challenges growing up. That being said, my cousin is a GREAT guy and he is very successful, has a beautiful family and his troubles growing up made him a very tender person.
3,000 followers of Brownstoner and his twitter, not followers of OT. I am pretty sure very few people actually lurk and read all of OT. Most stick to regular posts.
Whenever you read celebrities and some really famous / successful people’s profiles/bios….most have had really fucked up childhood’s.
I plan on providing my child with one so they can be an over achiever and very driven.
Yes, I think many if not most fathers have set expectations for their sons. It comes with the Y chromosome and the testosterone.
It’s hardwired into us at many levels, a competitiveness.
Many fathers live vicarously through their sons, if you catch a little league baseball game on a Saturday afternoon you will see this in effect.
“We are. Extremely dysfunctional. But who said dysfunctional families can’t be fun?! ; )”
Yes, we put the “fun” in dysfunctional.
Sorry, CGar. We stayed all of 5 minutes — too hot, sunny and crowded.
Yes ET, also most of those celebs stopped talking to their parents the minute they struck it big.
No Kens, my cousin is a lawyer and a very successful guy with his own law firm. I have to say that his parents were really a pretty wacky ” pair and the kids had their challenges growing up. That being said, my cousin is a GREAT guy and he is very successful, has a beautiful family and his troubles growing up made him a very tender person.
3,000 followers of Brownstoner and his twitter, not followers of OT. I am pretty sure very few people actually lurk and read all of OT. Most stick to regular posts.
oooh, and I am so gonna be a stage mom.
Beauty pageants here we come!
Whenever you read celebrities and some really famous / successful people’s profiles/bios….most have had really fucked up childhood’s.
I plan on providing my child with one so they can be an over achiever and very driven.
donatella,
Yes, I think many if not most fathers have set expectations for their sons. It comes with the Y chromosome and the testosterone.
It’s hardwired into us at many levels, a competitiveness.
Many fathers live vicarously through their sons, if you catch a little league baseball game on a Saturday afternoon you will see this in effect.
…off to lunch 🙂
“TextperV, chiller said there’s lots of lurkers on OT thread”
I didn’t say that, I have no idea. CGar said there are 3,000 Twits following.
TextperV, chiller said there’s lots of lurkers on OT thread