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To: skinowski who wrote (449800)	10/8/2011 2:37:18 PM
From: ManyMoose	8 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

I realize those three examples were accomplished. I guess I was addressing their hubris, narcissism, and sense of entitlement more than accomplishment. Here's what my wife did for our son, and now without a college education he makes more than his sister, mother, and I did put together, and all three of us have college degrees. Our son wanted snakeskin cowboy boots. He asked for them, but my wife said she would contribute only the amount she would have needed to buy regular shoes for him. That gave him an incentive to work that makes him very prosperous. When he wanted a big speaker set for his guitar, she did the same thing. Now I am so proud of him and his accomplishments. I told him I really admired all his accomplishments and his overall sense of values. He's much the better man and better father than I. He said rhetorically, "Where do you think I got those values?" A finer compliment I never hope to get.