this week and last week when I was buying school clothes ... it reminded me of what dick my was. He did not buy me nice shit. I got school clothes for my birthday every year... 5 pants, 5-7 shirts, one pair of shoes. I had to shop lift and borrow and snatch clothes from my sister... this year I spent more on school clothes for one kid... than my dad probably spent in 10 years for me. And I would not be mad if my dad was poor... he was far from it. ... so I blame him for my klepto-ey-ish ways. well my kid will look cool. He wants to the popular youtube thing and take a picture everyday, then make a movie out of them in fast motion... they are pretty cool. I hate that he picks his own shit out now,,, wanted Abercromie because of his cousins... Hot Topic book bag... tons of DC shirts ... preppy, skater, punk... pick a damn style. today he has on Skater shoes , punkish shorts, and a fucking Abercrombie shirt... and a Misfits bookbag. Oh the big kicker... he insisted on a NEW cologne ... spent 20 minutes picking it out. They grow up so fast.
Mine does the same thing. Doesnt even own a skateboard but has DC shoes and crap. I let him dress himself last year, but I think this year he is going to have a section of school clothes and a section of after school clothes. He doesnt like to tuck his shirt in, he doesnt like to wear shorts. He has his own 'ed hardy' cologne that he picked out, or he just steals mine.
yeah mine has been into cologne for a while now... I wanted to beat the shit out of him last year when I watched him go to the bus stop... turned around running... I thought he had the squirts ... no he forgot his cologne, and ended up missing the bus. this year he picked out Dolce & Gabbana but he did pick out ED Hardy folders and not books... they look gay to me
Print up a picture of the "50-off Store" logo, tell them that's where they're going to shop from here on out. Fucking kids. I can't fucking wait, goddammit...
well the book bag broke this morning... shitily made Hot Topic crap. I always have a "threat shirt" for if he does something bad... something stupid from the thrift store... with Barney on it. I have not actually ever made him wear it... just threatening it is enough. I also have an old dress from my skinniest day of my life... looks real good stretched to 3x the original size with fat rolls hanging over... I put it on to be funny one day.. then could not get it off. and I told Evan, " You ever get in trouble at school... I will go there in this dress"
That is funny, parenting by embarassing intimidation. I laid the rule down last night. Mon-Thurs he has to dress nice. Friday he can wear what he wants, as long as it is respectable, and it is tucked in. His backpack is a ACU Digital Camo Medium Transport pack, it aint breakin. All the kids in his school are jealous. I think I may have a little Jarhead on my hands.
Tucking your shirt in is dorky. And what the fuck is a "ACU Digital Camo Medium Transport pack"? It sounds dorky too.
Translated = U.S. contract gear, of which we spare no expense, to make sure our soldiers have the best damn gear around. I guarantee, that kid's backpack will probably be passed on to his first-born.
hehe your kid has to wear his shirts tucked in? You know that little shit pulls that shirt out before he even gets in the classroom. Does he dress in button down shirts everyday? Or are you making him tuck in tshirts? geez I just google the backpack... http://www.galaxyarmynavy.com/item-fo-56-427.asp that is a big ass bookbag.
Buy him the cheep shit for school when he is young it won't hurt just builds character. Look at me my pop is worth a shit load of money. It's all subjective what a shit load of money is but let me put it this way. He has been asked to speak twice for Dave Ramsey at his shows or whatever they are. But when I was going to school living in a lower middle class neighborhood and riding in cheap ass cars. My pops waited till the week before school and took us then to the Sears Surplus store and gave us each 50.00 and said "Ok go buy your school clothes. This was the Sears Surplus store on the shitty side of town also and all the stuff looked like it came from the set of The Brady Bunch. Needless to say as soon as I was about 12 I started looking for any job around the neighborhood mowing lawns or whatever. I knew the value of a dollar and was not a snob who felt entitled to look down my nose at other kids not dressed as nice. You could go for a softer approach and have the kid earn money doing chores then offer to match the money they spend on school clothes so long as you approve.
