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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KDM" data-source="post: 323893" data-attributes="member: 314"><p>I'll apologize right up front.  This is a RANT.  Here is an account of this evenings events at my house and it really bothered me so I thought, 'What the Hell, I'll send this to the peanut gallery on NDA."   My daughter had a girl friend over tonight and as we talked, I was brought to tears.....and then fits of rage.  As my wife and I engaged in conversation with our daughters friend she shared with us that she wanted to be a writer and had written a manuscript for a book already.  She's a junior in high school BTW.  Both my wife and I expressed our support to this young woman.  In passing, I mentioned that she should be mindful of editors that would tell her that they would "guarantee" they would publish her book if she would "grant them favors".  She gave me the strangest look and asked, "Would guys really do that?"  I didn't quite know what to say to that so I looked to my daughter for assistance.  She had none.  I asked her friend if she was serious.  She stated that she had never heard of someone that would do such a thing.  I was flabbergasted.  The conversation that followed was both disheartening and nauseating.  This young woman had NO IDEA there were people out there that would do such a thing.  I didn't quite know what to do at this point.  I looked to my daughter for help as I have been teaching her all about the pitfalls and dangers of what the real world can dish out since she was old enough to understand.  All I got was a blank look and a shrug.  Apparently, the parents of this young woman had never spoken to her about the possible pitfalls and traps the REAL WORLD holds.  I spent the next hour engaged in a frank discussion with this young woman, with the help of my daughter, on how the more nefarious shitbags of this world will take advantage of a young woman when they left their parents house and went out to the real world.  It was at this point that my daughters friend looked at my daughter and said, "Now I know why you act like a den mother when we go to the mall."  My daughters friend told both my wife and I that she had NEVER had a conversation like this about real life with her parents and that she had no idea that people were not good all the time.  When she left my house, I have to admit that I was and am genuinely concerned for this young woman.  She has NO IDEA what is waiting for her when she leaves her parents home.  THIS IS WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS I CAN'T HARDLY CONTROL MYSELF!!!!! This glorious, bright, intelligent young woman is totally unaware of what awaits her in a little over a year when she leaves her parents home and heads out into the world, and it bothered me to say the least.  Our children and young adults deserve better from us, the old people, the grey beards.  PLEASE.......Talk to your young adults about real life.  Talk to your children and your grand children.  Talk to them about sex, drugs, alcohol, mortgages, credit cards, love, lust, employment, bad bosses, loud mouth jerks at the bar, politics, dealing with liars, fast talking salesmen, want vs. need, thinking about doing something before they do it, making a budget and following it, lending money to friends, keeping your word, cost benefit analysis, considering others, looking long term instead of instant gratification, and all the other issues that come with being an adult.  Sorry for the rant, but this young woman hasn't got a clue one about what's coming her way and I blame her parents for not preparing her to deal with these issues and how to be an adult.  Agree or Disagree, this set me off tonight.....  The End!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>

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