Snowflake in the Making

casey8784 · March 2014

this girl is just lucky that her parents did what this mom did to her "trouble child":

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2473859/US-teen-sent-live-Siberia-mother-begs-come-home.html

SBmini · March 2014

pinkcow13 said:

loro929 - Wow this just gets better and better! What a pathetic excuse for a human being.

SBmini - This is true, but she still has other options besides suing her parents. She can get a job and pay for college herself, take out student loans, go to community college, etc. I mean why wouldn't she just become emancipated? She probably just wants her parents money and wants them to fund her lifestyle.

DING DING DING DING! She wants to do what ever she wants while still having mommy and daddy fund her. They let her know that they would so long as she followed rules, she said f the rules, and was all shocked when they pulled back money. Stupid, entitled little brat!

But being kicked out puts her at a HUGE disadvantage for paying for school. She still needs to claim mom's and dad's income on her financial aid applications. When I applied in the middle of the recession- when my entrepreneurial parents were making close to nothing- I still got denied federal aid. So I have no doubt she would too.

cupcait927 · March 2014

SBmini said:

pinkcow13 said:

loro929 - Wow this just gets better and better! What a pathetic excuse for a human being.

SBmini - This is true, but she still has other options besides suing her parents. She can get a job and pay for college herself, take out student loans, go to community college, etc. I mean why wouldn't she just become emancipated? She probably just wants her parents money and wants them to fund her lifestyle.

DING DING DING DING! She wants to do what ever she wants while still having mommy and daddy fund her. They let her know that they would so long as she followed rules, she said f the rules, and was all shocked when they pulled back money. Stupid, entitled little brat!

But being kicked out puts her at a HUGE disadvantage for paying for school. She still needs to claim mom's and dad's income on her financial aid applications. When I applied in the middle of the recession- when my entrepreneurial parents were making close to nothing- I still got denied federal aid. So I have no doubt she would too.

Then she does what my FI did - he went to a community college for two years and then a state school (SUNY here in NY) for two years and paid for the whole thing himself. His parents made enough money that he didn't get aid but they also couldn't afford to help him pay. He made it work. She can too. Her parents work their money and are entitled to spend it any way they see fit, much like we tell special snowflake brides who are mad that their parents (or FI's parents) won't contribute to their wedding and defend their viewpoint by saying they spend all of their money on XYZ instead. @SBMini this isn't meant as an attack on what you're saying, just that I think it's ridiculous that this girl thinks there's no way out her except to go into the military to have her education paid for.

SBmini · March 2014

ckel24 said:

SBmini said:

pinkcow13 said:

loro929 - Wow this just gets better and better! What a pathetic excuse for a human being.

SBmini - This is true, but she still has other options besides suing her parents. She can get a job and pay for college herself, take out student loans, go to community college, etc. I mean why wouldn't she just become emancipated? She probably just wants her parents money and wants them to fund her lifestyle.

DING DING DING DING! She wants to do what ever she wants while still having mommy and daddy fund her. They let her know that they would so long as she followed rules, she said f the rules, and was all shocked when they pulled back money. Stupid, entitled little brat!

But being kicked out puts her at a HUGE disadvantage for paying for school. She still needs to claim mom's and dad's income on her financial aid applications. When I applied in the middle of the recession- when my entrepreneurial parents were making close to nothing- I still got denied federal aid. So I have no doubt she would too.

Then she does what my FI did - he went to a community college for two years and then a state school (SUNY here in NY) for two years and paid for the whole thing himself. His parents made enough money that he didn't get aid but they also couldn't afford to help him pay. He made it work. She can too. Her parents work their money and are entitled to spend it any way they see fit, much like we tell special snowflake brides who are mad that their parents (or FI's parents) won't contribute to their wedding and defend their viewpoint by saying they spend all of their money on XYZ instead. @SBMini this isn't meant as an attack on what you're saying, just that I think it's ridiculous that this girl thinks there's no way out her except to go into the military to have her education paid for.

We're talking about a princess here who went to very expensive private school her whole life. She wouldn't even dream of going to a community college with all the poor kids! But she'll have to wise up soon, because there's nothing that says parents need to pay for college education.

pinkcow13 · March 2014

casey8784 - LMAO that is awesome. No lie, but my mom used to threaten to send me to Guatemala (we do not have any family there), and she said I would have to work on the farms and do hard manual labor. She was probably lying, but I did not want to find out whether the threat was valid or not.

ckel24 - SUNY student here. My parents helped fund some of my education. The rest was funded by a partial scholarship, TAP, I worked various jobs (work study, at the mall, campus jobs, and senior year got an internship), and I took out student loans which I am still paying off. My parents did not want me working while I was a student, but I did not want to be a complete burden on them. I appreciated their help, but I did not expect it because I knew that my parents were nowhere near rich, and they worked hard for what they gave me.

People always think that because I am an only child I was spoiled, but I was not at all. My parents always taught me the value of hard work. One time I think Sophomore year, FI and I were really broke. We were between work study checks, spent our money partying (responsible college kids we were), and we did not want to eat the campus food. I called my mom up asking her for her credit card info for food (we wanted Chinese takeout or pizza). Let's just say that was the first and last time I ever did that, and I learned to better budget my money going forward haha. I think we ate pop tarts from the vending machine that night.

MadHops21 · March 2014

Maybe I'm just slow, but if she's 18 and legally an adult, why is she demanding child support?

I think it varies by state because here in Chicago, if you're in high school and you're living at your parents home and they are paying for the tuition, then you legally cannot leave their house and live on your own or something ridiculous like that. I vaguely know this law, just that my friend couldn't leave her home until graduation.

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