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Parenting by Seth Barnes on 12/16/2007
Mr. Rogers was wrong. He meant well, but we parents ran with the "you're special" message and now the coddling virus continues to eat away even after young people go to college. The result? According to experts interviewed on "60 Minutes", they don't commit, lack perseverance, and think that they are owed dream jobs.
Catering to them is now a $50 billion industry. A delayed adolescence is transforming the workplace.
More than half of post-college kids move back home after graduating. Moms continue to mother. They phone HR and say, "but my little Johnny didn't get a good review - why?" On and on it goes.
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"60 Minutes" report does a great job of exploring the issue. It's why discipling 20-somethings is so imperative. There is greatness in them, but it needs to be called out.
It effectively identified many of the character "blind spots" of my generation. However, the important thing is to recognize and know that one has such blind spots and be cautious of them. However, it should be remembered that all generations have these blind spots. So that while my generation struggles with such vices as a lack of commitment and perseverance and a disproportionate focus on pleasure and consumption, past generations have struggled with xenophobia, gender inequality and an inability to test the limits. This "blind spots" of previous generations are strengths of my generation. I share this last point because it is often tempting to have a revisionist understanding of history, wanting to return to a "perfect era" that never existed in the first place.
here's about the show: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Tell_The_Truth
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