A New Next Generation

I was talking to another adult/parent today about the expectations of kids today. We use the term "entitled" to describe them because many of them EXPECT you to entertain them and EXPECT people to drop everything for them. They EXPECT you to clean up after them and they EXPECT you to bend over backwards to make them happy. Failure is not an option because it's not allowed to be. Now, saying all this, I have a feeling this is exactly what my grandparents' (and even parents') generation thought of my generation. And to a point they would be right. We didn't have to get jobs as kids to help pay for things. We didn't do so many chores we were exhausted at the end of the day. However, we did: play outside, entertain ourselves, earn our allowance by doing chores, obey our parents, take the responsibility for our mistakes, and fail a test if we didn't study. Hopefully, my generation feels the way I do about younger generations and will raise their children to balk at the word "entitled." Hopefully there will be a new next generation instead of a continuation of the one we have now. Things swing back and forth in America and I'm hoping that this next swing will be towards modesty, hard work, honesty, and good old fashioned play. Because these guys

will NOT be entitled if I have anything to say about it.