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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was reading the Jobs and Careers forum when this question popped up: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1194239.page TLDR: A 22 year-old girl from a wealthy family is bemoaning how "everyone in her life has abandoned her" because... She has the privilege of ending up with a Computer Science degree from an excellent college. But still, she can only focus on the negatives in her life and not the wonderful blessings she has! My sister is like this; my mom calls her an "injustice collector" as she regularly comes to family gatherings and blathers on about how "abusive" my mom and dad were to her as a child (spoiler alert: there was no abuse at all). Because of her extreme sensitivity, inflexibility, selfishness, and lack of empathy, my sister has had a middling career and a divorce (with no kids). How do I avoid raising such selfish, entitled kids? My parents mostly raised my sister and I the same way, and we ended up totally different. My biggest fear would be for my kids to end up as "injustice collectors" like my sister or the post in the Jobs Forum that I linked above. [/quote] I think it's worth looking at what's making that poster unhappy. She's spent four years hopped up on drugs to earn a degree in a field she hates because her parents made her. She's got no friends, no hobbies, nothing she does to make her happy. I don't think her issue is that she's entitled, it's that her life is kind of miserable. You can't control your kid's life enough to make sure they don't end up feeling that way, but do what you can.[/quote]
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