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Originally Posted by 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'.
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At last, some sense, kids, children, offspring, call them what you want, of course they're spoilt in comparison, no-one want's them to go through the hardships that centuries of toil and scarcity their Parents et al went through, so now they have it handed to them on a plate?
Try being an ordinary child and being able to find a job when you leave school, they are expected to, but they see how nearly impossible it is in their last years at school. We wanted to improve, we, had the chances of, if we worked hard we got rewarded, they work hard and if they are really, really, lucky get put on a useless training scheme that has no prospects at the end of it.
Call them for their shortcomings if you wish, I think they are having a harder time than we ever experienced, no wonder they give up.
