10 Ways to Get Your Punk-Ass Kid to Appreciate His or Her First Car

You're responsible not just for clothing and feeding your progeny, but for making sure he or she isn't a douche too.

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Whether or not you intended to, you made a person. If you're confused as to how that happens we don't want to explain it to you so go ask a librarian, that should be amusing. You listened to your person, let's call him "Bobert," scream at 4:29 AM, you handled lots of poop, you were poked and prodded whenever you tried to concentrate, and you spent money even faster than you would have if you had just burned it. After 16 years of that, you're now saddled with a new problem: You're tired of driving your punk-ass kid around and you want to just give Bobert his own car, but you want him to appreciate it.

Here's how to make sure that happens. These are 10 Ways to Get Your Punk-Ass Kid to Appreciate His or Her First Car.

Make Bobert put some money into it.

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Teach him how to maintain it.

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Make sure he's got a manual transmission to play with.

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Make sure he knows it can be taken away

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Actually take it away if you have to.

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Make sure it's clear whose car it is.

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Make it known that there are no replacements.

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Make Bobert wait for it.

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Give Bobert a beater.

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Set an example.

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