I'm not a fan of this as an across-the-board change. As needed? Absolutely. Everyone? No. Suck it up and cut the cord. My first inclination is to blame the stupid Millenials who can't hack life without weekly calls to mommy, but in reality this boils down to the fact that GenX helicopter parents are pussies.
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Originally posted by Donuthole View PostI'm not a fan of this as an across-the-board change. As needed? Absolutely. Everyone? No. Suck it up and cut the cord. My first inclination is to blame the stupid Millenials who can't hack life without weekly calls to mommy, but in reality this boils down to the fact that GenX helicopter parents are pussies."Nobody listens to Turtle."-Turtlesigpic
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Disagree. This is a good thing. We have an epidemic now with missionaries coming home early and will make a big dent in the problem."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostDisagree. This is a good thing. We have an epidemic now with missionaries coming home early and will make a big dent in the problem.
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Originally posted by Soccermom View PostYes. Counting my son, there were five young men his age who left for missions all about the same time. My son is the only one still out. I'm not a helicopter mom, and I think cutting the cord is important, but most of us had our cords slowly cut when we left for college in that we could reach out to our parents and other family whenever we wanted. By the time we left on our missions, we were kind of used to being on our own. Kids who leave at 18, right out of high school get their cord cut pretty abruptly. Cord cutting doesn't mean family support and encouragement have to be cut."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostYes. Suppose you have a kid who suffers from depression. A weekly therapy session with a loved one could be huge. Especially when you have a companion who lacks understanding or empathy.
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostYes. Suppose you have a kid who suffers from depression. A weekly therapy session with a loved one could be huge. Especially when you have a companion who lacks understanding or empathy.Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them, along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame set at gas mark “egg on your face”! -- Moss
There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese. --Coach Finstock
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Originally posted by Donuthole View PostLike I said, i'm not a fan of it as an across-the-board policy. As needed, definitely.Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
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Originally posted by Surfah View PostGood mission presidents already allowed that kind of communication for struggling missionaries. There were missionaries in my mission that could call home as needed and this was 20 years ago.
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Originally posted by Donuthole View PostI'm not a fan of this as an across-the-board change. As needed? Absolutely. Everyone? No. Suck it up and cut the cord. My first inclination is to blame the stupid Millenials who can't hack life without weekly calls to mommy, but in reality this boils down to the fact that GenX helicopter parents are pussies."...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
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Originally posted by Northwestcoug View PostLOL. My mom would have loved this change. As it was, I wrote home maybe once a month. And when I did, it was pretty meager stuff. If I had this policy, I think near the end of my mission I would end up texting her each week with something like 'I'm good, nothing really new here'.
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Originally posted by Soccermom View PostMy parents hardly wrote me on my mission so I could have called them up and said what the heck?"...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
"You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
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Originally posted by Surfah View PostGood mission presidents already allowed that kind of communication for struggling missionaries. There were missionaries in my mission that could call home as needed and this was 20 years ago.
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