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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A month ago, sitting at the airport, DH realized he forgot a paper he needed for a conference in his home office. I went out of my way FedEx it to him when he asked. Does that make him an entitled baby or just human?

Do you kids act spoiled in other ways? Are they never willing to do anything for themselves? Do they expect you to do everything? Bring them papers/PE clothes/permissions slips when they forget (all the time), etc.? Or was this a one off event?

[b]Just basing it on dynamics from my own house with young teens/pre-teens, I suspect they were angry when you said you wouldn't drive and were then in no mood to listen to your advice about what to wear. [/b]Does that make them entitled brats or kids who are still learning to manage their emotions and reactions?

Not everything is a life lesson and "coddling" them now and then won't make them entitled 30 year olds who only want to live in your basement and play Xbox. :)
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OP here. First of all, I agree completely that merely driving your kids in on a rainy day like this is not not necessarily going to turn them into 30 year old man-babies. You have teens so you do know how everything can morph into a test of wills. My kids act spoiled in many, many other ways. They live extreme silver spoon lives in terms of the home they live in , the trips they take abroad, the large sums of money my parents insist on giving them. I am pitted against a culture that assumes everyone should have an expensive gadget, kids should be able to do as they want when they want--it's really against my values. 
    So, but anyway, I just went up to the Welcome Center (which by the way, is about the coziest friendliest group of people that you'll meet anywhere--It makes you wish you were in 7th and 8th grade again--ok, not really, but still, nice, helpful folks…) I brought in my GIANT insulated transport bag with warm clothes that I had just pulled out of the dryer. Mrs. X politely summoned each child down one by one and each one rolled their little eyes at me and said JEEZUS I'M FINE MOM WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM. So, I implored my middle son who had put on some smelly gym shorts from his locker, to "please, do your classmates a favor and put on this toasty, dry underwear and these fluffy sweat pants and these over-priced "Elite™" sports socks that you insist that I buy and then go back to class." So, he relented and did it. I don't know what he did with the wet things--probably threw them in the trash. So I sheepishly walked back to my car and drove home. As I did, I passed the Truancy Van that is usually trawling the immediate neighborhood as it parked directly in front of the school. The van was empty as usual, but it does exist. I wasn't making that up. *sigh*[/quote]

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