I think we need an emoticon for "special snowflake alert." I can't believe some of the things I read on tPF. I think I must be living on another planet.
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I am howling!! I haven't been on this thread in forever, but I saw your post Gracekelly and I was dying!!
Snowflake insanity!!! Haha
You have daughters so you would appreciate the thread that is giving me this idea. I understand parents, especially those who grew up quite poor, who have the great fortune to do extremely well financially in their work life, want their children to have have the nice things that they did not have when they were growing up, but..... I think they are on their way to creating self-entitled monsters by giving them too much too soon and then having them associate with children who think the same. This is why there is the old saying: the first generation makes the money, the second generation spends the money, and the third generation loses the money. I think that in some cases, it jumps from one to three and poof it is gone,
Children enabled with luxury goods at too tender an age
In my part of the world, they are called the strawberry generation, self entitled but easily bruised.
It's not just the children though. The adult version of the snowflake syndrome is at epidemic too!
They are and parents are the enablers. Give the baby whatever it takes to keep him/her from whining.
I think there are lots of factors, but parenting must play a significant role, gk. It seems to me, crabby old lady that I am, that the idea of simple decency--not always putting oneself first, showing appreciation and kindness--you know, just sort of treating other people as you would like to be treated--is going away. Some of the reasons are sad, like the fact that people fighting just to get through a day really can't be expected to have the energy for etiquette. Or that in the current zeitgeist, you can be victimized for being, you know, pleasant. But part of the problem is people failing to value that sort of niceness and seeing compassion as weakness and narcissism as strength. 
Okay, this is NOT appropriate for the Good Times Cafe!
I'm off the soapbox.
Don't report me to the authorities!
Okay, this is NOT appropriate for the Good Times Cafe!
I'm off the soapbox.
Don't report me to the authorities!
Thank you, Cordy, for asking that. I didn't know either.
We don't have kids so maybe we know nuttin about nuttin.I think there are lots of factors, but parenting must play a significant role, gk. It seems to me, crabby old lady that I am, that the idea of simple decency--not always putting oneself first, showing appreciation and kindness--you know, just sort of treating other people as you would like to be treated--is going away. Some of the reasons are sad, like the fact that people fighting just to get through a day really can't be expected to have the energy for etiquette. Or that in the current zeitgeist, you can be victimized for being, you know, pleasant. But part of the problem is people failing to value that sort of niceness and seeing compassion as weakness and narcissism as strength.
Okay, this is NOT appropriate for the Good Times Cafe!
I'm off the soapbox.
Don't report me to the authorities!
Say at a dinner where people rarely see each other, is it appropriate when an adult is in focused conversation with another adult, is it appropriate for the latter to stop the conv whenever the kid (say 12 years old) bounces over repeatedly every 5 minutes or so interrupting with a question? It was really hard to carry on a conversation with that sort of interruption. The parents would have killed me if I complained. I dunno, maybe this is normal behavior.
A GF has a 4 year old kid and it's possible to have a really good conv. with her without the kid interrupting and wanting attention every 10 min. It must be the way she's trained the kid. I don't see her very often so the conversation is important to moi.
Switching back to the first entry, is it ok for 15 year old boys to chew an entire dinner with their mouth open? That really grossed me out but the parents would have killed me if i said anything.
Also,