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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 271478" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>I'm thrilled someone finally spoke out, and is doing something to change it. I've felt this way for a long time.</p><p> </p><p>I've had parents judge me as mean, lazy, uncaring because my kids had to walk a mile to school in hs. Two miles a day, no matter the weather. Making me feel guilty about it didn't work. I walked 2 miles to school everyday in hs.......and almost 4 miles for junior high (one direction). I survived, so did my kids.</p><p> </p><p>Kids today are so often coddled by parents afraid of doing something wrong in the eyes of CPS or the public, that they're becoming too lazy to think for themselves and too dependent on their parents. Then when they become adults, parents can't seem to get them to "grow up" and function out in the real world.</p><p> </p><p>I was protective of my kids to a certain point. But they were also taught independence appropriate at certain ages, the same thing my grandmother did for me. It's gotten me quite a bit of criticizm over the years. </p><p> </p><p>But funny thing.......even my kids see the difference between them and so many of their peers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 271478, member: 84"] I'm thrilled someone finally spoke out, and is doing something to change it. I've felt this way for a long time. I've had parents judge me as mean, lazy, uncaring because my kids had to walk a mile to school in hs. Two miles a day, no matter the weather. Making me feel guilty about it didn't work. I walked 2 miles to school everyday in hs.......and almost 4 miles for junior high (one direction). I survived, so did my kids. Kids today are so often coddled by parents afraid of doing something wrong in the eyes of CPS or the public, that they're becoming too lazy to think for themselves and too dependent on their parents. Then when they become adults, parents can't seem to get them to "grow up" and function out in the real world. I was protective of my kids to a certain point. But they were also taught independence appropriate at certain ages, the same thing my grandmother did for me. It's gotten me quite a bit of criticizm over the years. But funny thing.......even my kids see the difference between them and so many of their peers. [/QUOTE]
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