Reply #27: Yes, but there may be some things different for this generation...

[Sparkly]

There was, at least from what I saw working in schools, a very broad push toward "I'm a Star!" Like Lake Wobegon, ALL the children were supposed to be above average. And my first husband worked in a high school where kids and parents were irate (one almost broke our apartment door down!) if their kids didn't get *multiple* awards at the end of the year, just for "not spitting in the corner," as another teacher put it.

The other thing I wonder about is whether this generation is the first in a long time to have no -- or few -- first-hand affects of the military draft. The very idea of mandatory non-military service makes many scream about their rights and freedoms, as if these rights and freedoms just sort of happened.

And I wonder what it is about MY generation that made so many of us raise our children to be sort of emotionally spoiled. I've often wondered whether it goes in cycles: My mother was rather spoiled, and I had a more difficult upbringing; I spoiled my daughter in some ways imagining she was like me, and she is tough as nails in making it clear exactly what she wants -- so I expect when she's of the age to be a mother, she will take NO shit from her kids!!

But in any case, I do NOT blame Mr. Rogers. :)