Middle class kids

I'm not sure if I should really post this.  I'm not sure if it's really an appropriate RANT for a 'middle aged ranting spinster'???

...............BUT......................... middle class kids really do my head in.

And by that, I mean they have so many privileges that they don't even realise that they have.

My nephews & niece are the most wonderful, caring, young people ever, but they live in a 'cocooned' world.  Their 'mummy' (my sister) has never, ever, worked since they were born.  She's been fortunate enough to have a 'high flying' husband in a good job so her role has been to 'look after the house and family'.

And I have to say....................... she has done an excellent job.  There's no way I could have spent 20 years doing what she has.

My sister and her family are like the Waltons??!!  Home cooked meals.  Proper packed lunches. Chauffeuring the kids around, here, there and everywhere. No social life.  No sex life because her husband is hardly ever at home. Lol.  Actually I don't know that?!! I don't discuss sex with my sister.

The kids mobile phones are paid for, their cars are paid for (including installing sat nav), they go on holiday with their mummy & daddy (all paid for of course) and most of their uni fees have been paid via mummy & daddy.  All they have to pay for is their tuition fees and to be honest,  if they'd bothered to get a job while at uni, the fees would have been at least half way paid off by now.  But of course they didn't because.......................  because what?  They didn't need to.

My nephews & niece's life is just sooooooo far removed from the life of the kids that I work with everyday.

Living in the SW, where I work, with a lot of teenage kids.......................  life is so different for them.  Their parents can't afford to pay their uni fees so the kids have to subsidise themselves.  Their parents  can't afford to pay for driving lessons for them because they're only earning minimum wage themselves.

The youngsters in the SW learn to 'fend for themselves' from a very early age.  They find part-time work from when they are 14-15 years old, they earn their own money, they learn how to become independent very quickly.

If they want to go to uni - they have to pay for it themselves.  Most of the kids who go to uni from the SW end up in more than £20,000 debt. Hardly any of them will get a job back home that pays more than the £20,000 (or is it now £25,000?) that one needs to be earning to pay back the uni debt.

Life for kids in the SW is so far removed from the life my nephews and niece are living..............

....................And yet life for my nephews and niece is so far removed from the life that some of their 'rich' uni friends are living.

.............But however rich my nephews and nieces uni friends are................. do they really have a clue how well off they are???  I don't think so.

My nephews and niece are aged  21, 20 and 17.  So not exactly babies.  They could all appear on the Jeremy Kyle show???  Fortunately I don't think that is one of their great aims in life. Lol!  But they still all consult their mummy on every single thing.  Ie, I ask the 21 year old what he wants for Christmas/birthday pressies and he says, 'Ask mum'.  The 17 year old phoned her mum (when she, her mum, was staying with me more than 300 miles away) because she thought she had concussion???  She was at school.  Surely most 'normal' kids would have just taken themselves off to the school nurse??!!  What on earth did she think her mummy could do 300 miles away?  And as for the 20 year old................. well he's apparently dyslexic but has 'worked really hard to overcome it' (my sister's words not mine) but at a parents night in his latter years at school, she apparently said to a teacher, 'You do know he's dyslexic don't you?'  Seriously?  If he's been 'signed off' from having dyslexia then I don't think that can be used for any 'special' treatment.

Oh and then my niece told me that she got 'extra' time for writing because she was a slow writer???

Really???

The world has gone mad!

So if my niece gets a job as a waitress, what's she going to do?  ..................Say, I can't take your order very quickly because I'm  a slow writer???.................

The sooner these 'over protected' kids realise that 'life is not fair', the better.

Life isn't fair.  FACT!  Get over it..................

There's always going to be people who are brighter, richer, more intelligent, better looking, etc, etc.  Instead of everyone pursuing claims because they're a victim of one thing or another, why not just accept who you are and start enjoying life.

OK - RANT over!!!