Originally Posted by
wrxpilot
By the way, most people don't have their parents helping them out. Maybe I'm just reading into that a little too much, but don't carry that chip on your shoulder.
That is one of the biggest chips that people seem to carry on their shoulders - in aviation and life in general. Sometimes it is a fine line between helping your children do better than you did and teaching them some personal (and financial) responsibility. Much of that attitude is jealousy seeping into the open and carried on the wings of 'I did it myself'.