Quote Originally Posted by BigBear View Post
+1. I feel so old and I'm not even 30 yet.
It gets worse!


So, I have to agree with MichiganMilitia and BigBear - in concept - that parenting (or lack thereof) is at issue here. I will not, however, give much of the blame to parents directly.

How can I possibly differentiate between the two? Simple. My experiences and subsequent training in acceptable parenting has taught me that I have very little say or control in how I parent my own children. It seems that if ANYONE takes issue with my parenting techniques and chooses to report me to DHS (that's the Division of Human Services folks, not Dept of Homeland Security), I am automatically guilty and in error. I learned the hard way that it's just safer for me to back off and not hold my own children to the same standards or level of accountability that I was held to. In fact, when all is said and done, I had no way of legally enforcing those standards (Parents are only allowed to "make it uncomfortable" for the child to fail to do as they are told. Even then, you run the risk of inflicting "emotional or psychological abuse".)

In the words of Winnie the Pooh, "Oh Bother"!

Just my $0.02.