Generation ME

I have posted a few times that we are not raising our children correctly. I'll let someone else do the talking this time:

I shudder to think what a monster I would have become in the modern child-rearing era. Gorged on a diet of grade inflation, constant praise and materialistic entitlement, I probably would have succumbed to a life of heedless self- indulgence.
I totally agree. Kids are brought up to think they are God's gift to the world. Well, sorry, but we are not all created equal. We all have talents and weaknesses. It is healthy to know when we are not good at something.

we've built up the confidence of our kids, but in that process, we've created a generation of hot-house flowers puffed with a disproportionate sense of self-worth (the definition of narcissism) and without the resiliency skills they need when Mommy and Daddy can't fix something.
YES...Kids are so sheltered and taken care of they have no coping ability. They can't deal with anything, they cant handle anything.

That 30 percent of college students agree with the statement: "If I show up to every class, I deserve at least a B"?
When you praise everyone all the time even when they don't do a good job, they don't have a realistic sense of their actual ability or what it takes to do things well.

all that narcissism is a problem that can range from the discourteous—residential advisers at Southern lament students disregarding curfews, playing dance music until 3 a.m., demanding new room assignments at a moment's notice and failing to understand why professors won't let them make up an exam they were too hung over to take—to the disastrous—failed marriages, abusive working environments and billion-dollar Ponzi schemes. Seems that the flip side of all that confidence isn't prodigious success but antisocial behavior.

But no matter how you were raised, the handiest cure for narcissism used to be life. Whether through fate, circumstances or moral imperative, our culture kept hubris in check. Now, we encourage it.