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Life_is_Good

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time..

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Life_is_Good

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time..

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

tparkin

I love it !!! My oldest son just turned 13 yesterday and I would love for him to read this after school!

Fab140

I just quoted that and emailed it to my parents and my friends. I wish they would have knocked that into my generation's heads before we left high school!!!

Awesome post! :flowerforyou:

Healthier_Me

myspace bulletin board here I come... my nieces are off the chain... Paris Hilton wannabes

spaul82478

Great post... I wish someone would of been that bold with me when i was in highschool...lol thanks for the reading

Benson

Printing it and posting it in my house - Everywhere!! My daughter is going to be 13 next month and my "you just don't get it Mom" son is 15 1/2 This rings true on all counts for them.

MontanaGirl

Yup - printing and posting!! Thanks :drinker:

Fab140

Printing it and posting it in my house - Everywhere!! My daughter is going to be 13 next month and my "you just don't get it Mom" son is 15 1/2 This rings true on all counts for them.

Don't worry....they'll make the mistakes you warned them about and come back and admit you were right....

Unfortunetly, they won't learn to listen to you until their 20's......

:drinker: To you for having the strength to deal with two teenagers.....

mkeithley

LOVE IT!!!!

beautifulbay

this was great...it's everything we are trying to tell our oldest son (turning 12 this summer) .... Lord, give me strength!

Life_is_Good

My kids are 18 & 21 - they think they know everything! My son thinks he'll be a millionaire by the time he's thirty - here's to hoping :drinker:

AJCM

THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!!
:flowerforyou:

A note to parents with teenagers... I am 31, so I was a teen in the not so distant past...

I think I would be categorized as "a good kid" - I always made honour roll, I had a part time job, attended family functions and came to the dinner table 7 nights a week, however, when I think back, I was still a MASSIVE JERK to my parents (gave them attitidue, fought my curfew times, wanted to go out on a school night, may have uttered the words "I hate you" once or twice - or at least thought them once or twice!!! etc).

I kind of feel sick thinking about the disrespect that I paid to them, and even thought about them. Where did I get off thinking I was smarter than them? Or not realizing how much they had sacrificed for me? Or bringing my friends over to EAT THE FOOD THEY PAID FOR and not thinking about where the food came from!!!! Or not realizing that almost EVERYTHING parents do is for their kids!

Now a mother of two, my perception of my parents has changed SO much. I've told them all about this, and apologized, and I think it meant a lot to them. Just know that your teenagers love you, and will one day realize the errors in their ways! I sure did! Yikes. :noway:

abbychelle07

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now.

I like this one! I am already more boring, and my daughter is only 1 year old. I put sunscreen on her, won't let her eat french fries, etc. I think, "Oh my god, I am turning into my boring mother!"

AJCM

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now.

I like this one! I am already more boring, and my daughter is only 1 year old. I put sunscreen on her, won't let her eat french fries, etc. I think, "Oh my god, I am turning into my boring mother!"

Haha! I often think, OMG I am turning into my Mom!!!

Side story... We recently got a new tv with a PVR, and I coulnd't figure out how to turn the TV on!!! I thought, "I HAVE turned into my mother!" :laugh: