
Originally Posted by
VERAULT
Yeah my daughter is 14. Her friends range up to 16 yrs old. none have any ambition to have a drivers license. Why would they? They never leave the house really; not to venture outdoors anyway. I think they just want to remain children and have thier parents drive them around... (my daughter has a rude awakening if she assumes thats what I will do)
I know im beating a dead horse but I don't get young people and the trivial nonsense they are into.
Yeah, same here with my son. He has no interest in driving and that rude awakening is out since his mom and her parents live close and will take him anywhere he needs to go. To be honest, I'm not sure how much I trust kids driving anyway, too much distraction. I even get distracted myself but at least I have 30 years experience under my belt, I'm not sure I'd trust any his driving now. The most distraction we had was the radio or fast food.
My parents never took me anywhere I wanted to go and also never got me a vehicle, I had to find my own job and get a vehicle from that money as soon as i could (the downside for my parents on that approach is that I only liked motorcycles and muscle/sports cars, and the cars weren't an option initially but the motorcycle was). Luckily since my son doesn't care about cars at all, I might just get him a crappy pickup truck because then I can borrow it 
As for kids into trivial nonsense, maybe, but we had a lot of our own issues and silly interests as well. I think the Lorde "royals" song mostly accurately present the diferences in our generations, which as a parent are annoying habits since we want our kids to have good futures, but on the other hand they might end up being better humans (even if they're homeless or living in our basements.... Haha)
-- Brian
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