#LookThep

#LookThep

I was beyond relieved when those creepy lookthep dolls stopped making headlines. It was just too weird seeing people spending obscene money pampering a lifeless doll.

But the new kind of lookthep that made the headlines a few weeks ago is even more disturbing. In case you missed it, a 20-year-old guy smashed several random cars, with the ninth car being destroyed in the space of five months, just to spite his mother because she wouldn't give him the motorbike he'd been asking for. It was his own mother who advised him to run away and she would "sort it out" like she had with the previous eight cars.

This very same guy had set his house on fire after failing to convince his dear mother to give him B400,000. And God knows what else he's done that hasn't reached the reporters' ears.

This Mr Lookthep isn't alone. I've personally encountered several overly spoiled children, backed by their over-indulging parents.

- One mother called me to help do her son's homework, reasoning that he was very busy (he was like 14 or something -- how busy can a 14-year-old be?).

- Another girl I know got knocked up at the age of 14 and continued to produce a child per year until she was 16, with different men. Her parents didn't know what to say, so they just shouldered the responsibility of raising their stay-at-home daughter and three little grandkids. If anyone asks, they say it's because she's too pretty and it couldn't be helped that men would find her irresistible. Wait, what?

- A friend once told me how he blamed his parents for not being rich. "My life is too difficult. If only my dad hadn't been so damn lazy, I would've been very comfortable by now." His life was in no way difficult.

- An 8-year-old was mad at her mother for not carrying Hermes to school like her friends' mummies. How embarrassing to be seen with a mother carrying a brandless bag.

- While I was on the plane, the boy in front of me, whom I assume was a primary school student, was sulking to his mother over why they couldn't just fly business.

Isn't parenting just fun? There are so many ways your kid can turn out, it's almost like gambling! The funny thing is, in the examples I've just given, the parents sort of agreed that their children's dissatisfaction was justified.

Good news, people -- these looktheps live among us and from the looks of it, they're doubling by the minute. They could become the leaders of our country, your boss, or your future spouse. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Napamon Roongwitoo

Former Guru section Editor

Former Guru Editor. She writes various lifestyle articles and columns.

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