Ron wrote --

>> When I was 12, I had ADD for about 10 seconds.  My dad was yelling at me for something and my mind wandered off for a moment.
> *SMACK*  And it cured my ADD for good.
 
   The rulers the nuns had up their sleeves in school taught me that as
well.  A light smack across the knuckles ended those daydreaming periods. 
 
>  JM>   My mother taught what I needed to know to be independent and self reliant.
> 
> Same here (just more people taught me).  I'm amazed at how many dependant > people I see today.

   I think a lot of that comes from "helicopter parents" who swoop down at
the first bit of problems their child has and blames the other person not
the child for the problem.
   Children, as they do grow, go from complete dependence on others (new
borns to about five), then have a independence streak where they want free
from their parents and restrictions from about five or six though their teens. 
They want to do what they want 
   A good parent will teach their kids actions have consequences, for good
or bad.  
   Kids need to learn they can't have everything they want but too many
parents give them things, rather than love.  And sometimes tough love.
   They begin to believe they are entitled, by simply being alive, they are
owed things and throw temper tandems if they don't get their way.
   I see this as a generational thing.  Today's generation of young people
(with exceptions) as having a mass temper tandem and no one is willing to
tell them no.
   Joe
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