I'm So Over This Kid Giving Up Birthday And Christmas Presents And Telling His Parents To Invest In College, We Gotta Just Let Kids Be Kids

NY Post - A 9-year-old Minnesota boy has gone viral after lecturing his parents on why they should stop buying him presents on special occasions and, instead, start putting money away for his college.

The boy, Peter Linscheid, made the argument — written out on construction paper — that he’d have $1,800 in savings for school if his parents were to start allocating the funds right away, Kennedy News reported.

“I care about my future,” he succinctly said on camera.

His mother, Nikki Linscheid, 41, encourages her “little thinker.” After all, Peter had started his own candy business at 3.

“Earlier in the day, my son said to me ‘How much do you spend on Christmas and my birthday?’ and I was like ‘maybe about $100,’ ” she said.

“He said ‘Go back upstairs I have a presentation in a little bit.’ He presents stuff to us all the time. It’s funny and endearing.”

Nikki, who works in economics along with her husband Neil, 40, said that their career paths are clearly having an effect on Peter.

“We talk about it in our household. It’s something he hears a lot,” she said. “I think he’s following in our footsteps.”

I ask myself everyday on the internet "When will it end? ", as in when will a day go by that I don't see a clip, or a tweet, or a story that pisses me off on the internet. Now I know I probably have a quick trigger, and the more and more time you spend  online the more and more shit you see that pisses you off so I know I'm not the best person to ask about this stuff. Regardless, I think we can all agree after reading this story ... this whole family stinks. 

Can't kids just be kids? Do we really need a 9 year old from Minnesota lecturing his parents to save the money they would have used on Christmas and birthday gifts and instead save it for college? Additionally do we really buy that this kid came up with this on his own? Because I sure don't. His parents work in economics and likely fed him what to say like Baby Gronk, or just want to flex in their industry how "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" or get their own names in the papers. Totally set up and organized. Horseshit. 

And I need this kid to be honest- Ask him without the cameras on or the papers around and I'm pretty sure he would want a new bike, or football or to just be a normal kid. He's likely tired of running powerpoint presentations and just wants to lay out in front of the TV with ice cream stains on his shirt like a normal 9 year old. Because let's be honest... that's what kids need. They have their whole life to get bogged down with work, bills, and bullshit that will drain their creative spirit and ruin their lives. They should be enjoying everything they can while they have zero responsibilities because in a blink it's gone. Anyone trying to make this kid grow up faster than he should, or celebrating this type of behavior is part of the problem. We don't need that shit.