| Jeff Higgins |
07-10-2012 07:14 AM |
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Originally Posted by dennis in se pa
;6848885I grew tired of skateboarding around age 12 or 14. I have a son who is 24 who still lives for it. He is totally dependent on his mother. Arrested development? Enabler? Yeah, those words come into play.
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Originally Posted by dennis in se pa
"if your son "lived for" surfing or skiing would you attitude still be the same? "
If he expected his mother to pay for it - then yes. It's more of a maturity/ self sufficiency thing than a recreational focus thing for me. All of his friends who skate mooch off of their parents also. That did not happen back in the 60s when you were in your mid 20s. Unless you had issues of course, then ...well then...what can you do?
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Originally Posted by dennis in se pa
"is this your kid and his buddies?"
No - they all lost their licenses to drug violations and their mothers and or fathers bailed them out.
Mommy drives him to work ( the few who's mothers found them a job) and to the skate park.
She does not have the mental ability to understand what an enabler is. But she has great boobs. What can I do?
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This.
A good buddy at work has a now 25 or 26 year old son living this "skater lifestyle". Never finished high school. Suspended several times for drug use. Has no concept of his future. Flops from one buddy's parents' couch (who are also skaters, whose parent or parents are also enablers) to another as he wears out his welcome. Was excited as hell to get a "real job" printing and folding tee shirts at a local skating company. The "kid" is looking at a lifetime as a loser working menial jobs but, hey, he's "cool". Especially with the teens at the skate park. :rolleyes:
Bad parenting? I dunno - his other two kids finished college and are starting successful professional careers. You tell me...
While I don't blame the lifestyle, I do see the proverbial "chicken or the egg" question. While I certainly recognize that perfectly normal healthy people enjoy the sport, I will say the vast majority of people attracted to it are losers. The sport itself is rather proud of its slacker/loser image, and plays it up big time. That's too bad - like the "thug lifestyle", it probably sucks in some good kids and makes them into losers.
I think that is the rare exception, though - I think it attracts idle losers, and encourages them to slack off even more, and become even bigger losers than they otherwise would have been.
As irrefutable evidence of the above assertion, I offer you this:
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Originally Posted by dipso
(Post 6848885)
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Yes, folks, that is our beloved dipso. Biggest loser on Pelican, if not the internet as a whole. His childish, immature comments on this forum are the stuff of legend. He thinks he is funny, but the rest of us can't decide if he is Beavis or Butthead. A middle aged man whose mother no doubt continues to drive him to work, cook his food, and do his laundry.
Case closed.
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