How to Raise Spoiled Kids: Sweet 16 Party April 28, 2006
We all are trying to save on monthly costs, cut tax costs, or spend less to gather enough for a major purchase that has meaning in our lives, such as a home, college tuition, retirement, or emergency expense (at least those of us in the personal finance blog world and responsible spenders). I’ve been able to cut out $290 per month and counting, without noticing any difference in my lifestyle. But when I read about MTV’s ‘Super Sweet 16′ show about super-spoiled 16 year olds, I get sick to my stomach. I mean, all the effort by parents working and saving money for a secure future goes down the drain thinking about kids who throw temper tantrums because they want a party that will cost upwards of $200,000, goes down the drain. This behavior by children starts with the parents. One parent who is on the MTV show says:
“If you can afford to have a grand celebration, then why not,” said Dr. Kothapalli, who immigrated to the United States from India in the mid-1980’s. “It’s the American way. You work hard and you play hard.”
It’s no mystery that hearing this from parents results in kids like the one who says:
“We both want to lose three pounds,” said Priya, who received a Mercedes convertible and an assortment of diamond jewelry for her birthday. Her sister’s graduation gift package included a Bentley, diamonds and two homes in India.
“I was really surprised,” Divya said, “because I was only expecting a Bentley and one house.”
If you want to instill responsible money habits in your kids, they need some wisdom from parents about finance before they can become responsible citizens of the world, not to be wasteful. How sad when we are in a world where most people are dealing with poverty, environmental disasters, war, and energy crisis. I hope these parents who are raising these kids come to their senses.
Source:
MTV’s ‘Super Sweet 16′ Gives a Sour Pleasure
NY Times
By LOLA OGUNNAIKE
Published: April 26, 2006
- Posted in : Giving, Money and Relationship
- Author : Kyle
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[…] Generation X (born between 1965 and 1978) may be the ones who started feeling entitled to certain standard of living, but I think it’s unfair to label all Gen Y feeling entitled to $50,000 jobs right out of college. But seeing shows like My Super Sweet 16 makes me wonder about the Millenial generation. Is our society doomed to debt? […]
i think it’s awesome!…i think u need to get a life…if my parents can afford it then they’ll do whatever i say( they do because my dad owns hotle:D)…unlike some people our parents get good educations and don’t slack off and party! SO BACK-off! By the way i’m indian too….and indian recieve lots of gold and diamonds..it’s a indian thing;)
sry…typo
HOTEL**
I have two young daughters and I pray that they never turn out like any of the kids from Sweet Sixteen. I think the parents are at fault for raising such materialistic brats because the parents themselves are teaching their kids that money, image and status matter more than other ‘moral’ qualities. So these kids are a reflection of their parents lack of values and of a society that emphasizes material things. We’re Paki/Indian also and it’s true that gold and diamonds are commonly given to teen girls. But that doesn’t mean that parents will do “whatever their kids say.” There is such a thing as custom and family legacies. By the way my husband is also a physician and a very ethical one at that. I wonder honestly how that cardiologist could really make THAT much money? Doctors don’t make that much like they used to especially with insurance these days.
How lame.
Yeah they’re like birds in a guilded cage.
Dressing like easy girls and going round like bimbos trying to delude themselves that the world revolves around them.
“In our culture we don’t talk to guys.” - Priya
Everywhere they went they were accompanied by their very village desi looking Indian (HOUSEWIFE and looking very much the part. Submissive, non-opiniated and probably as dumb as her daughters.)
And look at them, they’re not exactly even up to standard with NORMAL India-BORN Indian women who knows how to put on make-up.
These girls waste money and kid themselves when they know they’re going to be trading off all this wealth when they get married off in some business trade proposal by their father (SO typically Indian. It doesn’t matter whether they’ve immigrated since 1980s. Once an Indian, they still always ACT like native India-born Indians.).
Get abused, have no say like their “wonderful” submissive mother who’s job is to probably watch the flowers and dust grow on their fireplace porch, and please their husbands.
It’s emptiness in a cultural, albeit wealthy, gilded cage. It’s so obvious. They stave their loneliness and the cultural iron hand on their virginities and so-called “purity” (also known as “marriage value” in the asian world) on wasting money, and their mother, the matron, follows them around wordlessly (probably what they’re going to do as well when they’re married) to ensure their “purities”. Anyway she doesn’t have anything to do. She’s a lowly housewife.
What is the freaking point? LAME. Anyone can see through their bimbotic facades.
It’s a tragedy not worth missing or feeling pity over. At least, you’d feel true pity on women from humbler backgrounds or PERSONALITIES (and brains) who’re trapped in the same cultural cage they’re in.
I’m watching these spoiled children right now, it makes me want to PUKE. No wonder the rest of the world hates the USA, after watching this I can’t blame them.
Without a doubt every single episode is sick. Of course MTV loves it cause its very Jerry Springerish. I wouldn’t blame the kids they are acting like any 16yr old would for them to act differently would be to act beyond their years. There is a lot that could be said about the parents though. As a Indian Immigrant in the US I do not find this surprising cause I have interacted first hand with this genre of Uneducated Indian immigrants or at least educationally challenged. This is not a Indian, Chinese or whatever culture thing this a uneducated thing. The educated and sophisticated know how to enjoy wealth. Paul Allen has a 300mil$ yacht but you never hear any noise about it or people like him.
Going back to comments about Indian culture and comments of “dyuff”. What two 16yr old girls (who have never really lived in India) say is not the truth. I am not sure about your comment dyuff “In our culture we don’t talk to guys” -Priya. I am not sure if she said that but this was not true even in prehistoric India. But all these people are small fries I think examples that people with and without wealth should follow are the likes off
(a)Bill Gates and Warren Buffet who gave given away more then 100 billion dollars of their wealth for charity. Yes 100 billion! I would like co challenge all the Sweet16 and their parents to figure out the number of zeros in that.
(b)Another life style example is Azim Premji another Indian billionaire who uses a Toyota Corolla. Narayan Murthy another Indian software billon are uses a very ordinary Indian car. These are the roles models of people in India not some hotel owner.
All said I do believe that everyone should be free to do what they choose with their wealth just like freedom of speech. It is encouraging when one sees that either of the freedoms is used in a progressive way.
Anyways I could go on but I need to earn my salary so I gotta get back as a parting note I would like to recommend a book its called the “Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith specially if you think you have arrived. Another trivia its a book that Bill Gates gifted Warren Buffet when he gave the Gates foundation most of his wealth. But seriously I gotta go……
dear god i was shouting at the TV when this episode of super sweet sixteen was on, that girl, priya or whatever, is such a bitch! she keeps saying she thinks she’s perfect but she is one of the ugliest girls ever!!!! she has a huge nose! and her personality just makes her damn ugly. She obviously has no real friends, people just wanted to have a party they dont actually like her. I wish she would realise how ugly she is.
If these girls have so much freakin money, why couldnt they invest some of that money on getting a stylist to help them look better. Also, I would have at least gotten some hair waxed off that Divya. These girls were just so pathetic. They have no friends but each other and the older one did say that in her culture they dont talk to boys…she said it on teh remix version of the episode. Also Divya went to India to do med school. Guess she can’t hack med school in the US so Daddy just pays of the college over there to take his daughter. This was one giant step back for all Indians. Shame Shame!
PRYIA AND DIVYA ARE SPOILED LITTLE BRATZ THEY NEED TO LEARN HOW TO BE HAPPY WITH WHAT THEY HAVE AND THERE PARENTS NEED TO STOP SPOILING THEM WHY DONT THEY GO GET A JOB THOSE BITCHES
THEY NEED TO STOP ACTING LIKE THERE WHITE AND START ACTING LIKE THERE INDIAN CAUSE THEY ARE IT WOULD BE SO FUNNY IF THEY WENT BROKE THEN THEY WOULD KNOW HOW ITS LIKE TO LIVE LIFE THE WAY MOST PEOPLE LIVE LIFE THOSE SLUTS