Am inspired by most recent conversation with my brother; beautiful niece and handsome nephew are both engaged to highly educated versions of themselves at age 28 and 27.
Cool stuff and these Millennials should not be judged by a generational definition. My namesake (niece) and favorite nephew were brought up properly by their parents and this upbringing seemed to offset negative outside influences.
I will take some credit here; I helped during summer vacations when these little meisters lived with me for 4 weeks or so. They certainly learned the value of manners, respect for their elders and behaving properly in 4 **** restaurants. Not to mention the value of education, SAT scores and attending top notch colleges…
I make no apologies for being bourgeois.
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
Kudos to them, and to you, Liz! There is hope yet….
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So they both think that they have found their BBDs? Color me skeptical.
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My “kids” are considered BBDs themselves dude. 🙂
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Just messing around (na krap)
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I love your final sentence. You go girl!
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How did you discipline them when they needed it/ schooling. I think that is always the super-tricky part when they are not your own biological children.
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Nanda, the educational aspect of their upbringing was highly emphasized by their parents so I merely backed up my brother and sister-in-law.
I didn’t have too many problems with discipline because they were slightly worried about upsetting me. 🙂 They knew if they acted up and annoyed me too much, I’d send them down the street to stay with their grandparents who were wonderful to them but not quite as much fun. 🙂
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Glad to see this, Liz – lots of positive reinforcement – but, ST posed the question, not I…..Hope you’re having a great Friday….
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I would NEVER say “it takes a village”—but I think it does take a family to raise a child, or at least, it certainly helps! A loving adult NOT a parent is something every kid needs. Sounds like you did ‘em a great service (and their parents too!) Every happiness to them!
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My apologies Nanda but this is what happens when I try to walk and chew gum at the same time. The market was extremely tricky today so I was going back and forth between computers.
This is my next question ST: Can you possibly get an edit function on comments so this distracted member can clean up her act sometimes?
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I do not know why that is happening but my guess is that it is a feature not a bug of this WordPress platform.
If my suspicions are correct then the only way to fix this is by upgrading/ paying WordPress.
In other words, thanks for bringing this to my attention. I was unaware of this problem, and will look into it.
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The ‘edit’ button appears on every comment but won’t allow me to use it unless I am cleared by the owner of the site.
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For me, too; plus, the button appears sometimes – and disappears – at whim…Frustrating.
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This problem should be resolved for you. Please let me know if it continues to be an issue.
Thanks again for bringing it to my attention.
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No worries at all, Liz! Hope the day smooths out; and that the weekend will be great.
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Thank you.
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I am beginning to think that the only reason a man should enter into holy matrimony is if he wants to have children.
Maybe the same should hold true for women but I do not understand them too much so would be going out pretty far on a limb to suggest the same for the most glorious of all of God’s creations.
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