a new balenciaga bag (new collection) a macbook pro laptop 2010, a new leather jacket, a bunch of jeans, 2 shirts and leather leggings and two pairs of shoes…Yves saint lauren and louis vuitton and she just said thanks without being too excited…she’s like, "is that it?" are you kidding me…i can’t believe she’s so ungrateful
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She is 17, money would have been the best gift. She may have wanted to pick out her own clothes.
Sounds like you must go overboard all the time with her and she doesn’t appreciate it. I blame you and your husband for buying her all these things…that is just ridiculous. Once a person gets used to getting all this stuff they always want more.
Meh, wait until she turns 18 and works at McDonald’s and she’ll learn the value of money really fast.
I say take it all back and tell her unless she learns to be grateful she gets nothing. That’s why you try to not spoil kids..they grow up to be ungrateful.
send her to work at a soup kitchen as a volunteer for a while
It sounds like this girl has maybe been spoiled with material possessions during her life. Perhaps she was expecting a luxury car instead?
I think she needs to learn some harsh life lessons now vs. later.
Does she have a job? If not, the local McDonalds is a good start.
You are either do very well financially or living way beyond your means. If you live the good life, perhaps your daughter could learn by helping those less fortunate. I am sure there are local charities in the area that could use some help.
Also, your lavish gifts probably aren’t helping. Children don’t learn how to act like this in a bubble. To be honest, you seem quite proud about these gifts and the luxury designer brands you presented your daughter with on her birthday.
Good luck!
Is Salacious Crumb the only one who can spot a troll before it gets close enough to smell it?
EDIT: Guess his answer was too spot-on, as I see it’s been removed. WTG, Y!A.
she’s 17.
she probably never worked for her own stuff.
what did u expect.
i understand you are disappointed but learn your lesson and next time you just get her something simple.
i mean just one of those things would have been already enough.
i would be so happy to get all that stuff, but my parents made me work for my brand stuff and i think it was a really good lesson they tough me.
they bought me jeans, but when i wanted brand jeans, i needed to look for a job.
You give her way too much, what do you expect? she is spoiled and it’s your fault so why blame her. She has come to expects it and when a child has to much they do not appreciate anything…
You better hope she finds a rich husband or she will be hell on wheels if she doesn’t get everything handed to her….
i would take it all back!
its just ungrateful, if you take it back she will be begging for it soon!
she NEEDS to learn!
i would never do this to my parents!
You have done a good job at raising a girl who expects the best in an unappreciated fashion. You are not alone, many parents have the tendency to put their children in thrones and give them all the things deserving of a king or queen. These children never learn the value of money, and unfortunately, many grow up looking for "other things" that are not just thrown at them for free. They grow up hungry for challenges and purpose.
Challenge is life’s greatest motivational tool, followed by purpose. You are the only one that can take it from here and be careful you are not wrapping your parental love and time in those gifts.
I sense a lack of "quality time" with your daughter. Plan a weekend to a place you know she will enjoy and share those days close to her, talking to her. Take advantage of this time to see what she "really" wants and needs, other than expensive gifts.
"i can’t believe she’s so ungrateful"
I can. You probably spoiled your daughter just about her whole life. Children have no concept of how good they have it, those values have to be instilled in them. Children need to learn they are not the center of the universe. Children need to learn that just because they WANT something doesn’t mean they get it. Children need to learn that someone had to bust their a$$ to buy the gifts they just received (and they weren’t ‘owed’ those gifts). Children need to learn that others are not so fortunate (get them involved in charity work to see the differences in what they have and what others have).
He should have took all of it back…and waited for her to beg for it. There are children that don’t even have food right now. Maybe you should make her work the week end in a homeless shelter feeding those who are less fortunate then her. See how she like those apples.
Ungrateful indeed! Wish my parents gave me so much stuff on my birthday! I guess she really is spoiled :/ (with all due respect to you).
do you usually give her good things? is she usually that way for everything? if she is then it’s her way of everything she just doesn’t like her birthday though if it’s only that then huh she is ungrateful.
maybe you spoiled her all these years. she may have been expecting a new car. she got more on her birthday that I ever got on Christmas.
wow.
i’m sorry, but i just couldn’t do all of that for my child. it’s unnecessary, as you have just learned. i’m with your first responder, take it back. all of it.
I think you and your husband must spoil her like crazy in the past.
The thing is, if you want to be appreciated, you must let her ask you for things. Not just give it to her. Teen girls are very prissy *I should know, been there – done that*
Make her work for the things she wants so she understands how much of an effort it takes to just get enough money to buy leggins of her own. I never knew it until I started working for my own money at the age of 14.
She was probably expecting a CAR since she’s 17. Like a BMW or MERCEDES.
Kids grow up and act according to the way their parents raise them. So it’s partially your fault for probably making her this way.
SHOW SOME TOUGH LOVE
BE PARENTS and not the other way around where you let your CHILD be the parent!
Sounds as though she has never wanted for anything ! Children are meant to be loved when they are her age. Not spoiled like a baby !
Might I suggest you collect all the presents you were giving her and return them to the stores from which they came ? Or as one other said "Give to the needy" ! Bet they will be appreciated by them…..
She’s so ungrateful because you’ve taught her to expect so much. Maybe if you gave her a normal amount of presents (couple of hundred dollars worth) for the last 16 birthdays she wouldn’t be such a spoilt princess now.
You have only yourself to blame.
Take it back and give it to the needy