Comments on: All washed up at age 26?!? http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/all-washed-up-at-age-26.htm Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:34:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Bernita http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/all-washed-up-at-age-26.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2430 Bernita Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:16:58 +0000 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=607#comment-2430 Duke! I get wound up over the victim> blame>no responsibility claims too. Duke!
I get wound up over the victim> blame>no responsibility claims too.

]]> By: Kirsten http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/all-washed-up-at-age-26.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2382 Kirsten Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:07:55 +0000 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=607#comment-2382 Yeah -- you know the term "helicopter parent," right? :-) Yeah — you know the term “helicopter parent,” right?

:-)

]]> By: Duke of Earle http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/all-washed-up-at-age-26.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2381 Duke of Earle Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:02:15 +0000 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=607#comment-2381 Kirsten, I don't understand your surprise. The quote came from "John Schulenberg, Ph.D., professor of developmental psychology at the University of Michigan." Sounds like a (stereo)typical PhD academic to me. Lots of scientific theory and perhaps "book knowledge," but little grounding in reality or life experiences. Plus (forgive me for this), he sounds like someone who will blame anybody or anything OTHER than the individual, when something goes "wrong." As in, we're all victims of... something. Sorry. Personal responsibility (and the increasing lack thereof) is one of MY hot buttons. Or perhaps, as Bernita says, what turns my crank. John Kirsten, I don’t understand your surprise. The quote came from “John Schulenberg, Ph.D., professor of developmental psychology at the University of Michigan.” Sounds like a (stereo)typical PhD academic to me. Lots of scientific theory and perhaps “book knowledge,” but little grounding in reality or life experiences.

Plus (forgive me for this), he sounds like someone who will blame anybody or anything OTHER than the individual, when something goes “wrong.” As in, we’re all victims of… something.

Sorry. Personal responsibility (and the increasing lack thereof) is one of MY hot buttons. Or perhaps, as Bernita says, what turns my crank.

John

]]> By: Kirsten http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/all-washed-up-at-age-26.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2379 Kirsten Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:42:10 +0000 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=607#comment-2379 Yes! Exactly! I was lucky in that my parents knew enough to let me muddle through on my own. Not that they didn't worry -- I'm sure they did. But they realized they needed to trust me to figure things out . . . Yes! Exactly!

I was lucky in that my parents knew enough to let me muddle through on my own. Not that they didn’t worry — I’m sure they did. But they realized they needed to trust me to figure things out . . .

]]> By: Bernita http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/all-washed-up-at-age-26.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2378 Bernita Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:31:23 +0000 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=607#comment-2378 The line from the study "Parents aren't necessarily in the clear when..." turned my crank. I hope I misunderstood it. There's a point when parents are no longer responsible for either one's failures or one's achievements. The line from the study “Parents aren’t necessarily in the clear when…”
turned my crank.
I hope I misunderstood it.
There’s a point when parents are no longer responsible for either one’s failures or one’s achievements.

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