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Message: [QUOTE="huskeynut, post: 2850358, member: 750"] Nothing new in this article. I spent 33 years in public school education as a band director. Retired a few years ago but I still hear the "horror" stories from one of our daughter-in-laws who teaches kindergarten. Its the same behavior with a different title. The article is correct in that parents are doing the child a very large disservice by "bailing them out" when the make a mistake. Fortunately, I worked in a middle school that nip thia type of behavior in the bud. I also agree with CL82 about Scouting. I was an adult leader for 30 years. Yup, I stayed on after the boys were out. I was having way too much fun! The Boy Scout program teaches the valuable lessons of self-reliance, teamwork, planning, communications and perseverance. I still remind parents that A Boy Scout troop is a boy run organization. The boys elect their leaders, plan their events, organize their meetings and run their meetings. The phrase today's parent need to learn is "the only time you fail is when you don't try." Not meeting your goal is not failure. Lessons were learned along the way. Its part of the process. I always taught my Scouts and students to look back and see what happened. Given time and support, they figured out what happened and why things didn't work out. Then you pick them up, dust them off and send them out to go for again. [/QUOTE]