I'm really hoping the idea of the show is to illustrate that "problem", so to speak, with a lot of kids these days. And it's funny, cause I'm not THAT much older than these kids, but I seem to have a VERY different outlook. It seems that a lot of parents have started down the path of "my kids has to have the best for him/her", and that's extended into causing zero adversity in their life. Sure, I want the best for my son, but I'm not going to bend over backwards to give him that. I have a friend who coddles her son so much that he's now a complete d*ck most of the time. And she even admits it, but she'd rather have him happy (meaning he always gets his way) than have to deal with the actual repercussions of parenting. And while I do agree that bullying is bad, I think a little teasing can help build a child's resolve. But now, any time a kids is teased it's take him out of the class or let's change schools. How bout you teach you kids to deal with it? I was teased quite a lot in junior high, and cause I wasn't accepted by the popular kids, I took initiative and sought out other avenues to be accepted. That introduced me to more nerdy things, and generally things that weren't known or understood by the mainstream of my school, and yes, I think that's made me a better person. Kids need adversity...they need to be challened, and when parents support their kids past college (or even in college), it's setting them up to be 25 and have no idea what it's like to actually pay rent, or to know of the idea of needing a well paying job to pay that rent. They've never managed money, so they think that buying nice clothes and having a nice car is just a normal part of life. It's not. I'm hoping this show can capture that idea.
Ok, done ranting.