You could read this Charlotte mag cover story on spoiling your kids — or hit yourself in the head with a hammer. Same impact.
Confirms what a deep wellspring of truly deluded people are breeding, creating an army of dysfunctional young adults unequipped for life in a free society. The idea that children should be held to some sort of high standard for meaningful achievement appears to utterly alien to thousands of middle-class and upper middle-class parents.
I really never imagined myself to be a hard-case on parenting and rules and such, but with every passing year I am more aghast by what many of my supposed peers consider normal behavior in kids.
