Quote Originally Posted by shine View Post
feed a young kid today and he'll go to bed happy , cut his ass off and he'll go to work when he's hungry. one of the biggest faults i see today is mom and dad bailing them out of every mess they get into. loaning money, paying for the car, paying for the insurance etc . go to a middle school and count the cell phones .
Heck Shine,
Around here the student parking lot at the high school has newer and higher dollar cars than anything in the teacher's lot. We've got little girls getting a new Beemer or Mercedes for their 16th birthday!! At the university they have a new position to deal with the parents trying to interface with the kid's teachers when little Johnny gets a below average grade... Yep, you've hit upon a big part of the problem..... How about a two year mandatory military service stint for everyone??? Sure, it costs some money, but it might straighten some kids out when they learn that they have to be responsible for their actions.