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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents allow electronics, teachers, daycare workers, Nannie’s, and coaches to raise their children, then expect them to be able to handle the stress and changes that come with college. They give them cell phones at 8 or 10 and that device quickly shuts out the parenting capabilities even more. They send them to schools that don’t even use textbooks and expect them to handle college life with note taking, writing, studying and reading from actual books and professional publications is often a  requirement. They coddle them and cater to their every whim, claiming little Suzy doesn’t have time for learning how to cook, clean, do chores, plan a menu, learn finances because she has sooooo many activities. They don’t prepare them for the real world, too much coddling and not enough actual parenting. Then they get out on their own and lack basic skills and now college seems so much more difficult because someone missed how to adult 101 during the first 18 years of life.[/quote]

This is silly and not accurate. Some of these things in individual combinations MAY contribute to them (and I agree on the social media and phones too young) but this post links depression to some ridiculous things. Textbooks?

It also makes a lot of assumptions, not to mention you show your hand with statements like "coddling" your children.  :roll: I was original Gen X with parents that did not coddle, were not loving, barely knew where I was half the time and did not prepare me for jack sh---. They just expected that I'd do my home work and the rest. Yes, I had chores and worked but so what? I was also sexually assaulted at one of those jobs but didn't have the relationship with my parents to tell them about it.

Some of y'all glorify the old days but you need to take off those rose-colored glasses. It was not all good things or even the model I would look to in order to guide my parenting. [/quote]

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