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Originally Posted by Slappin Fish
Good read Robbie, where I think you get it wrong is a lot of the "coddling" happens at home where today's kids develop an oversized sense of entitlement. There's a difference between high school cheekiness and petulant 14 year old middle school students who demand to get what they want.
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I agree with you. Parents need to get their kids ready for the world. Not treat them like infants.
My parents were mean as hell. lol
My mom was a deputy sheriff and my dad was a rancher and citrus grower redneck.
Those were the days when you were a kid and did something wrong you got backhanded. So I learned to be able to confront my parents and have some pretty high tension discussions with them WITHOUT getting hit. It taught me how to do that.
Kids these days (as you said) are so coddled at home by their parents that they have no social skills or understanding of the real world.
That's why I am amazed at how some of the people on GFY talk to others on this board. I know I wouldn't do that unless I expected to get punched in the face.
And I can thank good old mom and dad for teaching me how to argue a point without any physical pain coming to me. lol