Well you are correct in what you say. I am a mother to 1 son also. I saw many mothers who did the same and their children turned out to be the most ungrateful lazy bad attitude kind of people you could mention. and thats a fact......My son told me I was like a drill seargent..haha...I suppose I was at times especially when I layed down the rules..I was a single mother and I had to go to work so I did not have time for messing about. anyway bye bye..
Well you are correct in what you say. I am a mother to 1 son also. I saw many mothers who did the same and their children turned out to be the most ungrateful lazy bad attitude kind of people you could mention. and thats a fact......My son told me I was like a drill seargent..haha...I suppose I was at times especially when I layed down the rules..I was a single mother and I had to go to work so I did not have time for messing about. anyway bye bye..
Smart remarks, Hoping. Very glad to read them. I "HOPE" all are listening.
Quoting Hoping4Love2000:
I couldn't figure out if "Molly Coddle" was an awful movie you saw... or a bad dining experience!
My son was 17 and came to live with me full time.. I told him he had to get a job since it was summer and I didn't want him having "too much time on his hands."
I then informed him I would wake him at 7 am, would check his milage daily, he was to come see me at work daily to "report" to me what he had accomplished, and gave him a tablet. I told him to write down where he went, what time, who he spoke to and the managers name because I was going to call and make certain he wasn't trying to pull one on me. (Now of course I was NOT going to contact anyone.. who'd hire a kid with a wacked out mom? LOL) BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW THAT!
One day he went to 22 places! I was very impressed! :) He got discouraged at times... But in one week, he had a job! And he has never been unemployed since! He made over $30K last year when he was only 21 and was going to school full time!
A "Molly Coddle" mom asked me "HOW" I got my son to get a job so quickly. I told her all of what I demanded. Two years later, I asked my son how this young man was doing.. He said, "Mom, still the same. Living at home, parents shell out money to him, doesn't work and hangs at beach all the time. We run into each other now and again in town, but we don't hang. The guys a LOSER!"
When my son's friend came to live with us (21 YO young man who had some drug issues in past my son worked with) I informed him he had to always remain employed and random drug tests applied to him as well, regardless that he wasn't my child. YES! I have drug tested my kids! I'm one of "those" moms! AND I MAKE NO APOLOGIES FOR IT!
My daughter had left her Dads home and was getting on wrong track a while back. I received "the call." The family needed Mom's presence! I was off the boat within 20 minutes and drove 12 hours straight to go straighten her out! She has been back at home now for a year, working 3 jobs and starting college in fall!!
So any moms who are reading... If your teenager sits on sofa or in front of computer all day and you are shelling out money to them for fuel and buying their food... I don't fault them for being unproductive ... I BLAME YOU! MOTHERS are the backbone to society and you better quit "Molly Coddling" your kids! In the words of a very outstanding young man... "Your kids a LOSER!"
Quoting Hoping4Love2000:
I couldn't figure out if "Molly Coddle" was an awful movie you saw... or a bad dining experience!
My son was 17 and came to live with me full time.. I told him he had to get a job since it was summer and I didn't want him having "too much time on his hands."
I then informed him I would wake him at 7 am, would check his milage daily, he was to come see me at work daily to "report" to me what he had accomplished, and gave him a tablet. I told him to write down where he went, what time, who he spoke to and the managers name because I was going to call and make certain he wasn't trying to pull one on me. (Now of course I was NOT going to contact anyone.. who'd hire a kid with a wacked out mom? LOL) BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW THAT!
One day he went to 22 places! I was very impressed! :) He got discouraged at times... But in one week, he had a job! And he has never been unemployed since! He made over $30K last year when he was only 21 and was going to school full time!
A "Molly Coddle" mom asked me "HOW" I got my son to get a job so quickly. I told her all of what I demanded. Two years later, I asked my son how this young man was doing.. He said, "Mom, still the same. Living at home, parents shell out money to him, doesn't work and hangs at beach all the time. We run into each other now and again in town, but we don't hang. The guys a LOSER!"
When my son's friend came to live with us (21 YO young man who had some drug issues in past my son worked with) I informed him he had to always remain employed and random drug tests applied to him as well, regardless that he wasn't my child. YES! I have drug tested my kids! I'm one of "those" moms! AND I MAKE NO APOLOGIES FOR IT!
My daughter had left her Dads home and was getting on wrong track a while back. I received "the call." The family needed Mom's presence! I was off the boat within 20 minutes and drove 12 hours straight to go straighten her out! She has been back at home now for a year, working 3 jobs and starting college in fall!!
So any moms who are reading... If your teenager sits on sofa or in front of computer all day and you are shelling out money to them for fuel and buying their food... I don't fault them for being unproductive ... I BLAME YOU! MOTHERS are the backbone to society and you better quit "Molly Coddling" your kids! In the words of a very outstanding young man... "Your kids a LOSER!"
Smart remarks, Hoping. Very glad to read them. I "HOPE" all are listening.
V - In the UK, we call it the Bank of Mum & Dad, or Dad's or Mum's Taxi!
When I worked in a certain part of the UK as a Private Client Stockbroker, I was alarmed at the number of 40-something (and older) year-olds that were still living at home with their Mums and Dads under all manner of excuses! It was unforgivable, plainly unforgivable! I was sincerely stunned and in some instance did not keep my mouth shut about it.
My 2-year-old already knows how to do his business (completely independent) in the loo, wears his owns socks and shoes; and pants (which he manages to always wear backside to the front, lol!). Whilst the 5 year-old knows to tidy up his room, the living room if his toys make their way there, clear up the dishes after a meal and helps run errands around the house. He understands the value of (money) tokens which he can bank and spend on treats when he accumulates up to 5. If he misbehaves, he loses some, lol.
Why on earth anyone would enjoy being Molly Coddled even if one's parents offer is beyond me. Just say no thanks mum, I'm a big girl or boy now unless of course it is a serious situation that demands assistance.
V - I've got to have to be honest, like CnC and Hoping, I never heard that term before. Shall have to check my dictionary when I get a moment. But thanks for the post!
Liv.
Hi, Liv. Actually V is being a bit indulgent.
Mollycoddle is not actually two words. It's one. And it's a verb, or a noun or an adverb. And, according to an online dictionary I just checked it out on it means:
To be overprotective and indulgent toward. See Synonyms at pamper.
[there's a whole bunch of junk that will appear when I post that doesn't show up in my "draft" so I can't delete it. Sorry about that.]
Quoting Livnlov:
V - In the UK, we call it the Bank of Mum & Dad, or Dad's or Mum's Taxi!
When I worked in a certain part of the UK as a Private Client Stockbroker, I was alarmed at the number of 40-something (and older) year-olds that were still living at home with their Mums and Dads under all manner of excuses! It was unforgivable, plainly unforgivable! I was sincerely stunned and in some instance did not keep my mouth shut about it.
My 2-year-old already knows how to do his business (completely independent) in the loo, wears his owns socks and shoes; and pants (which he manages to always wear backside to the front, lol!). Whilst the 5 year-old knows to tidy up his room, the living room if his toys make their way there, clear up the dishes after a meal and helps run errands around the house. He understands the value of (money) tokens which he can bank and spend on treats when he accumulates up to 5. If he misbehaves, he loses some, lol.
Why on earth anyone would enjoy being Molly Coddled even if one's parents offer is beyond me. Just say no thanks mum, I'm a big girl or boy now unless of course it is a serious situation that demands assistance.
V - I've got to have to be honest, like CnC and Hoping, I never heard that term before. Shall have to check my dictionary when I get a moment. But thanks for the post!
Liv.
Hi, Liv. Actually V is being a bit indulgent.
Mollycoddle is not actually two words. It's one. And it's a verb, or a noun or an adverb. And, according to an online dictionary I just checked it out on it means:
Interesting you should bring this up at this precise time. I've been thinking on and off all day long about a friend of mine, my age [way up there, yeah, I know] who has a 35 year old daughter who has called her 6 out of 7 days of the week for the last 20 years to complain about how awful her life is--and to ask for money. My friend--a Molly Coddler if there ever was one--has given in to her daughter 6 out of 7 days a week for the last 20 years because she feels sorry for her daughter because her daughter has no friends because, according to my friend: "my daughter is just too unhappy to be nice enough to anyone for more than 5 minutes to be able to keep friends. I just feel so sorry for her." The daughter, BTW, is on her second marriage. Both marriages were discouraged by her mother who knew they would not work. And second marriage is worst than the first. Oh, and did I mention that my friends 30+ by a little bit son still more or less lives with her? He has his own place, yes, but he spends 5 out of 7 days at his mom's house because he doesn't like to cook or do his own laundry, so he "let's" Mommy do it for him. More than this I won't say because any further details given, my friend would recognize herself in this post should she ever run into it on the web where it is freely available looking for sure things. HUH??????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????????? Sometimes I would like to strangle my friend to teach her a lesson. But that, of course, would accomplish nothing.
Quoting Voyager54:
...I can't think of anything more annoying than a Molly Coddler, except perhaps the off spring they are over protecting. I have ditched long time Bro's because as soon as they had kids, their wives would turn into the most bizarre of all human beings...The Molly Coddler...
Molly Coddle your kids and before you know it, you'll have a 40 year old son or daughter living in your attic or basement with no real way to get them out.
Molly Coddler's spoil their kids...and instead of teaching them things like reading, science, math or geography, they instead let them run stupid, get tattoos and walk around totally illiterate and for sure, will drain your retirement fund!
I have seen many people whose kids have taken advantage of their parents all because the mothers were so over protective.
Why even bother having kids if you're going to Molly Coddle?!
Quoting Voyager54:
...I can't think of anything more annoying than a Molly Coddler, except perhaps the off spring they are over protecting. I have ditched long time Bro's because as soon as they had kids, their wives would turn into the most bizarre of all human beings...The Molly Coddler...
Molly Coddle your kids and before you know it, you'll have a 40 year old son or daughter living in your attic or basement with no real way to get them out.
Molly Coddler's spoil their kids...and instead of teaching them things like reading, science, math or geography, they instead let them run stupid, get tattoos and walk around totally illiterate and for sure, will drain your retirement fund!
I have seen many people whose kids have taken advantage of their parents all because the mothers were so over protective.
Why even bother having kids if you're going to Molly Coddle?!
Interesting you should bring this up at this precise time. I've been thinking on and off all day long about a friend of mine, my age [way up there, yeah, I know] who has a 35 year old daughter who has called her 6 out of 7 days of the week for the last 20 years to complain about how awful her life is--and to ask for money. My friend--a Molly Coddler if there ever was one--has given in to her daughter 6 out of 7 days a week for the last 20 years because she feels sorry for her daughter because her daughter has no friends because, according to my friend: "my daughter is just too unhappy to be nice enough to anyone for more than 5 minutes to be able to keep friends. I just feel so sorry for her." The daughter, BTW, is on her second marriage. Both marriages were discouraged by her mother who knew they would not work. And second marriage is worst than the first. Oh, and did I mention that my friends 30+ by a little bit son still more or less lives with her? He has his own place, yes, but he spends 5 out of 7 days at his mom's house because he doesn't like to cook or do his own laundry, so he "let's" Mommy do it for him. More than this I won't say because any further details given, my friend would recognize herself in this post should she ever run into it on the web where it is freely available looking for sure things. HUH??????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????????? Sometimes I would like to strangle my friend to teach her a lesson. But that, of course, would accomplish nothing.
V - In the UK, we call it the Bank of Mum & Dad, or Dad's or Mum's Taxi!
When I worked in a certain part of the UK as a Private Client Stockbroker, I was alarmed at the number of 40-something (and older) year-olds that were still living at home with their Mums and Dads under all manner of excuses! It was unforgivable, plainly unforgivable! I was sincerely stunned and in some instance did not keep my mouth shut about it.
My 2-year-old already knows how to do his business (completely independent) in the loo, wears his owns socks and shoes; and pants (which he manages to always wear backside to the front, lol!). Whilst the 5 year-old knows to tidy up his room, the living room if his toys make their way there, clear up the dishes after a meal and helps run errands around the house. He understands the value of (money) tokens which he can bank and spend on treats when he accumulates up to 5. If he misbehaves, he loses some, lol.
Why on earth anyone would enjoy being Molly Coddled even if one's parents offer is beyond me. Just say no thanks mum, I'm a big girl or boy now unless of course it is a serious situation that demands assistance.
V - I've got to have to be honest, like CnC and Hoping, I never heard that term before. Shall have to check my dictionary when I get a moment. But thanks for the post!
Liv.
V - In the UK, we call it the Bank of Mum & Dad, or Dad's or Mum's Taxi!
When I worked in a certain part of the UK as a Private Client Stockbroker, I was alarmed at the number of 40-something (and older) year-olds that were still living at home with their Mums and Dads under all manner of excuses! It was unforgivable, plainly unforgivable! I was sincerely stunned and in some instance did not keep my mouth shut about it.
My 2-year-old already knows how to do his business (completely independent) in the loo, wears his owns socks and shoes; and pants (which he manages to always wear backside to the front, lol!). Whilst the 5 year-old knows to tidy up his room, the living room if his toys make their way there, clear up the dishes after a meal and helps run errands around the house. He understands the value of (money) tokens which he can bank and spend on treats when he accumulates up to 5. If he misbehaves, he loses some, lol.
Why on earth anyone would enjoy being Molly Coddled even if one's parents offer is beyond me. Just say no thanks mum, I'm a big girl or boy now unless of course it is a serious situation that demands assistance.
V - I've got to have to be honest, like CnC and Hoping, I never heard that term before. Shall have to check my dictionary when I get a moment. But thanks for the post!
I couldn't figure out if "Molly Coddle" was an awful movie you saw... or a bad dining experience!
My son was 17 and came to live with me full time.. I told him he had to get a job since it was summer and I didn't want him having "too much time on his hands."
I then informed him I would wake him at 7 am, would check his milage daily, he was to come see me at work daily to "report" to me what he had accomplished, and gave him a tablet. I told him to write down where he went, what time, who he spoke to and the managers name because I was going to call and make certain he wasn't trying to pull one on me. (Now of course I was NOT going to contact anyone.. who'd hire a kid with a wacked out mom? LOL) BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW THAT!
One day he went to 22 places! I was very impressed! :) He got discouraged at times... But in one week, he had a job! And he has never been unemployed since! He made over $30K last year when he was only 21 and was going to school full time!
A "Molly Coddle" mom asked me "HOW" I got my son to get a job so quickly. I told her all of what I demanded. Two years later, I asked my son how this young man was doing.. He said, "Mom, still the same. Living at home, parents shell out money to him, doesn't work and hangs at beach all the time. We run into each other now and again in town, but we don't hang. The guys a LOSER!"
When my son's friend came to live with us (21 YO young man who had some drug issues in past my son worked with) I informed him he had to always remain employed and random drug tests applied to him as well, regardless that he wasn't my child. YES! I have drug tested my kids! I'm one of "those" moms! AND I MAKE NO APOLOGIES FOR IT!
My daughter had left her Dads home and was getting on wrong track a while back. I received "the call." The family needed Mom's presence! I was off the boat within 20 minutes and drove 12 hours straight to go straighten her out! She has been back at home now for a year, working 3 jobs and starting college in fall!!
So any moms who are reading... If your teenager sits on sofa or in front of computer all day and you are shelling out money to them for fuel and buying their food... I don't fault them for being unproductive ... I BLAME YOU! MOTHERS are the backbone to society and you better quit "Molly Coddling" your kids! In the words of a very outstanding young man... "Your kids a LOSER!"
I couldn't figure out if "Molly Coddle" was an awful movie you saw... or a bad dining experience!
My son was 17 and came to live with me full time.. I told him he had to get a job since it was summer and I didn't want him having "too much time on his hands."
I then informed him I would wake him at 7 am, would check his milage daily, he was to come see me at work daily to "report" to me what he had accomplished, and gave him a tablet. I told him to write down where he went, what time, who he spoke to and the managers name because I was going to call and make certain he wasn't trying to pull one on me. (Now of course I was NOT going to contact anyone.. who'd hire a kid with a wacked out mom? LOL) BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW THAT!
One day he went to 22 places! I was very impressed! :) He got discouraged at times... But in one week, he had a job! And he has never been unemployed since! He made over $30K last year when he was only 21 and was going to school full time!
A "Molly Coddle" mom asked me "HOW" I got my son to get a job so quickly. I told her all of what I demanded. Two years later, I asked my son how this young man was doing.. He said, "Mom, still the same. Living at home, parents shell out money to him, doesn't work and hangs at beach all the time. We run into each other now and again in town, but we don't hang. The guys a LOSER!"
When my son's friend came to live with us (21 YO young man who had some drug issues in past my son worked with) I informed him he had to always remain employed and random drug tests applied to him as well, regardless that he wasn't my child. YES! I have drug tested my kids! I'm one of "those" moms! AND I MAKE NO APOLOGIES FOR IT!
My daughter had left her Dads home and was getting on wrong track a while back. I received "the call." The family needed Mom's presence! I was off the boat within 20 minutes and drove 12 hours straight to go straighten her out! She has been back at home now for a year, working 3 jobs and starting college in fall!!
So any moms who are reading... If your teenager sits on sofa or in front of computer all day and you are shelling out money to them for fuel and buying their food... I don't fault them for being unproductive ... I BLAME YOU! MOTHERS are the backbone to society and you better quit "Molly Coddling" your kids! In the words of a very outstanding young man... "Your kids a LOSER!"
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