Life, in all its phases, presents good and bad incidents which are enjoyed or just endured. anticipating ahead of time that that's the way it will be will make the bad more acceptable and easier to endure. Unfortunately, many of today's youth have grown up being protected from every disappointment and hardship therefore not learning how to cope with them later in life.
This is visible in the " me and mine" attitude many express. It also extends into public policy in the form of "you should take care of everything for everybody". After all, they never had to do anything or take responsibility for themselves so why should they start now that they are "grown up"?
Formation of character begins from the moment a child is born. It is a hard job for loving parents to enforce discipline of any kind, especially since many times it is easy to fall into the "what difference does it make" category. The difference is that a lesson that should be learned is not learned but the process is stored forever.
What is my point? Today, and for the past 60 years or so, we, our government. has acted like the "loving parents" and coddled a large number of people who now don't know how to care for themselves. We tend to blame those people but the blame is on the enabler. When there is no choice, people finally figure out that THEY have to do it for themselves, Some, of course, truly can't. Those we have to care for but the others, after a period of suffering withdrawal pain, will survive and become better people. Later, they will be proud of their achievements and pass that lesson on to their babies.
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This is visible in the " me and mine" attitude many express. It also extends into public policy in the form of "you should take care of everything for everybody". After all, they never had to do anything or take responsibility for themselves so why should they start now that they are "grown up"?
Formation of character begins from the moment a child is born. It is a hard job for loving parents to enforce discipline of any kind, especially since many times it is easy to fall into the "what difference does it make" category. The difference is that a lesson that should be learned is not learned but the process is stored forever.
What is my point? Today, and for the past 60 years or so, we, our government. has acted like the "loving parents" and coddled a large number of people who now don't know how to care for themselves. We tend to blame those people but the blame is on the enabler. When there is no choice, people finally figure out that THEY have to do it for themselves, Some, of course, truly can't. Those we have to care for but the others, after a period of suffering withdrawal pain, will survive and become better people. Later, they will be proud of their achievements and pass that lesson on to their babies.
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