Dave wrote:
On 23 Apr 2007 18:19:52 -0700, "Capt. Rob" wrote:


People like Dave will never understand doing the right thing for their
kids....take a look, Dave. Little Thomas is running on his own land,
playing on clean grass, No one broke any glass or did any drugs here
hours before. You can't say that about any part of Manhattan, Dave.
Have a look, Dave....

http://s128.photobucket.com/albums/p...t=DSC_0212.jpg

Thomas' college (and I mean ANY college) is already paid for. He's out
of the city muck and slime on his own land. His friends don't come

from broken homes...or poor ones.

I don't mean to sound crass, but Dave's generation was all about
taking care of themselves and putting the kids second. Then they'd
send them off to school after working long weeks and leaving the poor
kids alone. Suzanne and I worked it so Thomas is not left alone for
most of the week. Why couldn't you all manage that?


Right, Bobby. I guess my kid had a deprived childhood.

Her mother wasn't a nurse. She was an accomplished lawyer who
graduated first in in her law school class, practiced law for several
years and then shifted careers to spend time with the kid.

My kid turned down admission to a couple of high schools your kid
wouldn't have a prayer of getting into because admission is by highly
compeitive exam. Instead she graduated from one of the City's top prep
schools.

She didn't do high school drama--she went to the country's leading
ballet school, performed with the City Ballet at Lincoln Center and
Saratoga, choreographed an off-Broadway show at age 16, and interned
with the Alvin Ailey company.

Oh, yeah. About those kids from broken homes. I gotta admit that
Trump's kid was at that ballet school with her.

We didn't spend our time watching her play soccer at Podunk's youth
soccer league. We spent it watching her perform at Lincoln Center. We
didn't take her to movies--we took her to theater, concerts, light
opera and opera. She turned down a full ride scholarship at a
university your kid probably won't even be able to get into, to attend
and graduate from one of the top 3 liberal arts colleges in the
country, spent a summer in Japan and two years studying in European
universities, wrote for the Boston Globe, and is finishing up and MBA
in finance from the #1 business school in that area.

So I guess we were selfish in letting her miss out on some of the
advantages of hanging out with a nurse in Podunk, NY.

Good God Dave...how could you have abused that poor child like that?