Chevy Chase Club to Parents: Your kids are brats

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So much negative stereotyping about CCC members and rich people. If we substituted "women" "blacks" "blondes" or
many other groups it would be racist, sexist etc. but for some reason it's ok to stereotype CCC members.. I'm a member and pretty much all the kids I know there are well behaved. They certainly are no worse than any other population of kids.

+1. Don't be surprised -- it's Jealousy 101.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So much negative stereotyping about CCC members and rich people. If we substituted "women" "blacks" "blondes" or
many other groups it would be racist, sexist etc. but for some reason it's ok to stereotype CCC members.. I'm a member and pretty much all the kids I know there are well behaved. They certainly are no worse than any other population of kids.

+1. Don't be surprised -- it's Jealousy 101.

Yes, we are so jealous of your misbehaving kids. Gosh, do I wish I had one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So much negative stereotyping about CCC members and rich people. If we substituted "women" "blacks" "blondes" or
many other groups it would be racist, sexist etc. but for some reason it's ok to stereotype CCC members.. I'm a member and pretty much all the kids I know there are well behaved. They certainly are no worse than any other population of kids.

+1. Don't be surprised -- it's Jealousy 101.

I see your point. The actual problem is people who fail their children, repeatedly, by not telling their children WTF the word "NO" means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Affluenza.

Seriously, if the wealthy can literally get away with multiple homicides, why should we be shocked that their children are spoiled, entitled brats with no manners? I expect this trend to continue.

Not all. If we correct sweeping generalizations about poor people being criminals than we need to correct them about the wealthy.

I think the wealthy are just fine, sweeping generalizations or no. They aren't, say, being oppressed for example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't consider jumping on furniture "wracking the place".Its the sign that children need more physical activity.
I have a different approach and think that trully free person can't be raised in prison.And I don't want him to be raised with bunch of psychological problems,supressed by opinion of this materialistic society .I try to explain what's good or bed,but that would not include "jumping on furniture".

Most people consider jumping on furniture to be "wrecking the place". Your children will be very unwelcome in most places. It is a sign that they are poorly mannered, and perhaps that they need more physical activity. The place for that is outdoors or in a gym, not in someone's living room. Having good manners means learning appropriate time and place, not doing what you feel like when you feel like. Otherwise those around your children would slap them when so inclined, but they most likely do not.

Try teaching your children consideration of others, and appropriate behavior. They may end learning it the hard way. You sound like an inconsiderate person whose children will be ill prepared for life outside of your cocoon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So much negative stereotyping about CCC members and rich people. If we substituted "women" "blacks" "blondes" or
many other groups it would be racist, sexist etc. but for some reason it's ok to stereotype CCC members.. I'm a member and pretty much all the kids I know there are well behaved. They certainly are no worse than any other population of kids.

+1. Don't be surprised -- it's Jealousy 101.

It's not really a good assumption that everyone posting here isn't wealthy, or is jealous. Perhaps they are members and are sick of the antics? Or are simply members elsewhere?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So much negative stereotyping about CCC members and rich people. If we substituted "women" "blacks" "blondes" or
many other groups it would be racist, sexist etc. but for some reason it's ok to stereotype CCC members.. I'm a member and pretty much all the kids I know there are well behaved. They certainly are no worse than any other population of kids.

Hilarious. They are worse in a certain way. They have no sense of how anyone else lives. I send my kids to public school for elementary so that they are not around those kids. Once you grow up like that, you really never can be normal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So much negative stereotyping about CCC members and rich people. If we substituted "women" "blacks" "blondes" or
many other groups it would be racist, sexist etc. but for some reason it's ok to stereotype CCC members.. I'm a member and pretty much all the kids I know there are well behaved. They certainly are no worse than any other population of kids.

Hilarious. They are worse in a certain way. They have no sense of how anyone else lives. I send my kids to public school for elementary so that they are not around those kids. Once you grow up like that, you really never can be normal.

Wow, no generalization there. :sarcasm:

How do you wrongly assume that "they" have no idea how other people live?

[Anonymous]

My children went to private school and grew up at Chevy Chase Club. All schools remember their manners as well as the help and members of Chevy Chase Club. Do not judge all the apples at GIANT because three or four are rotten.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My children went to private school and grew up at Chevy Chase Club. All schools remember their manners as well as the help and members of Chevy Chase Club. Do not judge all the apples at GIANT because three or four are rotten.

Well, this makes no sense, but thanks for weighing in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So much negative stereotyping about CCC members and rich people. If we substituted "women" "blacks" "blondes" or
many other groups it would be racist, sexist etc. but for some reason it's ok to stereotype CCC members.. I'm a member and pretty much all the kids I know there are well behaved. They certainly are no worse than any other population of kids.

Hilarious. They are worse in a certain way. They have no sense of how anyone else lives. I send my kids to public school for elementary so that they are not around those kids. Once you grow up like that, you really never can be normal.

Wow, no generalization there. :sarcasm:

How do you wrongly assume that "they" have no idea how other people live?

I grew up with kids like that, as well as kids who had much less. I have lived my whole life in pretty rich circles-divorced parents and one set belonged to country clubs and the other did not. Went to public and then fancy private schools. Good mix of exposure, and I don't want my kids around rich kids all day long while they are young. I think it cripples you for life to have that much privilege when you are just a child and to surround yourself only with others who do as well. Going to the soup kitchen once a year doesn't undo this sense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somehow Old Money will never seem the same again.

I suspect there's a lot of Not Old Money at Chevy now.

Ah yes, it's all the fault of those nouveau riche social climbers. Who let those people in, anyway?

Actually I wonder if the clientele is changing? I met a new family at our school that says they moved to our neighborhood to join the club but they don't seem to fit the stereotype at all and it is so obvious to everyone they are trying to connect to the Chevy social world and want to be a part of it even though they are not really in that world and are not avid golfers etc.. The husband is kind of a redneck. They for some reason seem very confident they will get in. Anyway, the whole thing is surprising to me so I am wondering if there is some truth to your point that they are letting in very obvious social climbers now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somehow Old Money will never seem the same again.

I suspect there's a lot of Not Old Money at Chevy now.

Ah yes, it's all the fault of those nouveau riche social climbers. Who let those people in, anyway?

Actually I wonder if the clientele is changing? I met a new family at our school that says they moved to our neighborhood to join the club but they don't seem to fit the stereotype at all and it is so obvious to everyone they are trying to connect to the Chevy social world and want to be a part of it even though they are not really in that world and are not avid golfers etc.. The husband is kind of a redneck. They for some reason seem very confident they will get in. Anyway, the whole thing is surprising to me so I am wondering if there is some truth to your point that they are letting in very obvious social climbers now?

I think you're right - the clientele is changing. Specifically, my wife and I have been (nicely, subtly) approached three of four times over the last few years about joining. I have no problem with CCC or any club, but it's just not for me/us.

Generally, I assume that not enough of the next generation of people who otherwise fit the old profile of CCC membership want to join or can afford to join. That means the club must branch out to those who can afford it and want it. Like many other institutions, the club will have to keep what it can of the old while adapting to the new reality.

Rude children span socioeconomic, cultural and geographic boundaries. The notoriety around CCC's travails is purely schadenfreude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I thought the letter he sent out was super helpful. I posted it on my fridge for all 4 of my nannies to review and, fingers crossed, hoping that my kids will read it after their tutors teach them to read. I would be so humiliated if the next letter mentioned my kids by name.

All four of your nannies? Gag me

[Anonymous]

So not a surprise, belonged there for years....things never change, and frankly they never will. Its a bastion of privilege and entitlement....so over that.