Bart,
Like I said, you're a sad, poor man. I can remember back when I was a
teenager and your descriptions don't ring a bell at all.... but I can tell
you plenty of stories about the "focused" boys whose only goals were to get
into someone's pants or to see how much beer they could swill....I was in
the Honor's program....everyone I ran around with were eggheads...we thought
a great time was tutoring reading comprehension down in the ghetto...
My daughter's a mechanical engineer....my grand-daughters were not allowed
to watch network television at home until they turned 10 and 12 and then
only with adult supervision. They do not have access to the Internet
without my daughter's presence in the room, for homework research only, and
they do not have cell phones or even the regular phone to fall back on. In
fact, my daughter and her husband just moved out of the subdivision
environment so the girl's wouldn't be influenced by peer pressure but have
the larger responsibilities of country living.
All I can think is that you either had a very weak mother, or really strange
sisters to think that your viewpoints are the average...they are not.

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