February 18, 2010
are you raising a douchebag?
I think it’s a serious parenting question (says the single, kidless man), but the article is very fluffy:
But inevitably the moment arrives when all your doting and care come back on you in the form of a precocious little barb that reminds you in no uncertain terms of . . . you. It might be that his friend Jake’s eighth-birthday party was “unbelievably lame” or that “it’s weird that Brandon’s family flies first-class and we don’t,” or maybe it’s simply that “these taquitos taste like turd.”
It’s then that you must reckon with the real possibility that your drive to make little Johnny better, smarter, and hipper has merely turned him into a douchebag. Put it this way: If it’s your child, not you, who gets to choose your weekend brunch spot, or if he’s the one asking how the branzino is prepared, it’s probably time to take a hard look at your own behavior.
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These taquitos taste like turd.
In most situations where I’ve met the parents of douchebags, they are also douchebags. At best they were oblivious to their child’s douchebaggery.
You gotta beget while the begetting is good.
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‘Douchebag’ is the primary characteristic of ‘Hip’.
A preschool teacher I knew would say, on every single side of that coin, “It IS the parents.” Over and over, “Take a look at the kid, then the parents, and see what I mean.”