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What came first? The chicken or the egg?
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<blockquote data-quote="KTMom91" data-source="post: 677853" data-attributes="member: 4040"><p>Your post reminded me of my grandmother. She was an incredibly strong woman, raised four kids (who were very close together in age), owned and ran their own business, and dealt with my grandfather's alcoholism and subsequent bad behaviors. All the kids and grandkids had great respect for her; she was only 5'2" tall but everyone jumped when she asked them to.</p><p></p><p>I don't remember that any of the older generation (my father and his brothers/sister) returned home for help; all went to college, and if they messed up, a parental visit to straighten out the offending child was made. Even though my brother and I did "move home" for brief periods in young adulthood, we didn't stay long.</p><p></p><p>I only raised a daughter; my stepsons were 16 and 18 when Hubby and I got married, but there was some "failure to launch" there. I know I was hard on my daughter about taking responsibility for herself, given that I refer to her father as Useless Boy, who is in his 50s and still being supported by his mother, and has raised professional victim to a fine art.</p><p></p><p>The sense of entitlement that some in this generation has developed is terrible, and yet I don't know what we can do on a large scale to combat it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KTMom91, post: 677853, member: 4040"] Your post reminded me of my grandmother. She was an incredibly strong woman, raised four kids (who were very close together in age), owned and ran their own business, and dealt with my grandfather's alcoholism and subsequent bad behaviors. All the kids and grandkids had great respect for her; she was only 5'2" tall but everyone jumped when she asked them to. I don't remember that any of the older generation (my father and his brothers/sister) returned home for help; all went to college, and if they messed up, a parental visit to straighten out the offending child was made. Even though my brother and I did "move home" for brief periods in young adulthood, we didn't stay long. I only raised a daughter; my stepsons were 16 and 18 when Hubby and I got married, but there was some "failure to launch" there. I know I was hard on my daughter about taking responsibility for herself, given that I refer to her father as Useless Boy, who is in his 50s and still being supported by his mother, and has raised professional victim to a fine art. The sense of entitlement that some in this generation has developed is terrible, and yet I don't know what we can do on a large scale to combat it. [/QUOTE]
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