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     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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