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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 647203" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Sadly, I think that IS the problem. When our children are overindulged they often (not always) seem to expect it to continue, especially those who seem to be wired to be lazy, addicted or just not your normal "I-want-to-be-independent" teen. My husband joined the military at 17 and got his GED (very high score) in the Air Force. Soon after his father died of cancer and he paid the mortgage for his mother until she got on her feet. Being a traditional family, she had not worked (this is another problem I see. Moms are not home...kids running wild. Divorces. Steps. Etc.). Anyhow, he was not brilliant or a special teen. He was an average student who had a good heart and had a strong sense of responsibility. He drank too much sometimes in the Air Force, but stopped when he married and now doesn't drink at all and he's not an alcoholic. He just stopped playing games once he had responsibilities. (His first wife was not me however).</p><p></p><p>The entitlement issues is a bad one when certain differently wired adults are given everything. They don't understand that rules do apply to them and that childhood has an ending. Seriously!!!! Can you imagine us demanding our parents support us while we laid around and maybe did drugs in our over 18 years? LOL. Yeah, right.</p><p></p><p>But here are many of us doing it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 647203, member: 1550"] Sadly, I think that IS the problem. When our children are overindulged they often (not always) seem to expect it to continue, especially those who seem to be wired to be lazy, addicted or just not your normal "I-want-to-be-independent" teen. My husband joined the military at 17 and got his GED (very high score) in the Air Force. Soon after his father died of cancer and he paid the mortgage for his mother until she got on her feet. Being a traditional family, she had not worked (this is another problem I see. Moms are not home...kids running wild. Divorces. Steps. Etc.). Anyhow, he was not brilliant or a special teen. He was an average student who had a good heart and had a strong sense of responsibility. He drank too much sometimes in the Air Force, but stopped when he married and now doesn't drink at all and he's not an alcoholic. He just stopped playing games once he had responsibilities. (His first wife was not me however). The entitlement issues is a bad one when certain differently wired adults are given everything. They don't understand that rules do apply to them and that childhood has an ending. Seriously!!!! Can you imagine us demanding our parents support us while we laid around and maybe did drugs in our over 18 years? LOL. Yeah, right. But here are many of us doing it. [/QUOTE]
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