[Margaret Pilkington]

To some degree I think we, as parents haven't helped.......we have had hard lives(or certainly my early life was hard) and we wanted better for our children......we have gone too far the other way in making things too cushy for many youngsters. To develop and grow there has to be a degree of 'need'....and I'm not sure I have explained that very well.......but I hope you get my point. We have mollycoddled them instead of making them stand on their own feet.
We haven't been hard enough with them...they missed out on the 'tough love'.