Replies to post #181475 on InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

[pochemunyet]

OT: Good to hear. I hope all parents read this; the ones who aren't rearing their children right, so they can learn; and the ones who are, to support what they're already doing right.

[my3sons87]

Loop it sounds like my dad and your dad went to the same parenting school. And as my dearly departed mother once said before she passed, "thank god for fathers as they could put the fear of god into you kids" when I couldn't.

Maybe our parents should have raised the Pekka, the Snake and the Samsung bunch. They most likely would be paying those royalties due proudly.

[laranger]

Loop.

Any father would love to hear such words from a son or daughter.

I gotta hunch The Big Guy will send him a copy.

[KAJO7710]

OT- AAAAmen!!- my upbringing was a mirror of yours!eom

[JimLur]

Loop, I'm sure your father would be proud of your comments. I think it was Carol Burnett that said love your childern enough to hate them at times. A little harsh but there's a message there.

[MMC89]

loophole...We all have someone to thank for our character success.....I am sure there are a lot of people that are greatfull for knowing you. The old saying.... Lead by example..will always be true. Heck I have always like the way you comb your hair...and I've never seen you with your hat off.

[habu]

Loop - Though you and I were raised a generation apart, we were raised under the same basic rules. Parents guided their children through the difficult time we call childhood. They kept us on the straight and narrow and demanded perfect behavior of us. We never gave "perfect" behavior but we did learn what it meant. Until I was older and on my own, I did not respect that “lesson” I was given.

In that day, the school system also demanded "perfect" behavior of me. It was the lesson that my parents taught me, re enforced by the school system, that allowed me to become as successful as I am today. Many in the last 30 years somehow forgot the “lesson” that allowed them to live the life they do.

We adopted "political correctness" and "multi culturalism", over what we were taught as children, because it was the best way to "ease" our guilt over the seemingly undeserved success we enjoy. Most do not recognize that the "ease" of our success was paid for by the "toils" of our parents and the lessons they taught us. It is a gift that we are supposed to pass on to our children. The "easy way out" does not work. We need to teach our kids that it is OK to succeed and that it takes hard work to achieve success. It is imperative that they succeed to keep our civilization alive. All though we have done it with the best of intentions, I hope our children will learn in spite of the obstacles we have placed in their way.

[hookrider]

OT: dang loop are you my brother LOL. that sounds like my life I just read in your post. Thanks for putting it in better words than I can.
The only thing I would add were a couple of Vice Principles, one at Jackson Jr High and one at S F Austin High in Houston. The one at SF Austin was name Bull, and for good reason.
I got my butt whip by both and today I think more of the teachers that busted my A, than the ones that let us get away with a lot.