The more I see and read reports on how children are being coddled the more I fear for this country in the next few decades.  This country is in real trouble when these spoiled, pussy-ass kids grow up and realize that everything is not just given to them and they have to deal with rejection and failure.

I just watched a segment on HBO called Real Sports and they were revisitinga 2002 report about how principals and athletic departments were eliminatingdodge ball and other competitive sports from their elementary schools.  They didn’t want to support an environment for children that would create clear winners and losers.  Then they visited a school recently that replaced tag with shadow tag and also eliminated all forms of contact between students, including a simple “high five.”  I watched the idiot principal of Acacia Christine Hollingsworth promoting this as though this is some policy that should be applauded.  Yeah Christine, way to stunt the development of maturity in kids by fosteringa belief that everything in the real world is even and fair.

More proof that we are truly f***ing our kids up is this “don’t say no to my child” rule that some parents push on teachers in pre-school and kindergarden.  I have friends who teach and tell me that some parents tell them that under no circumstance should they say no to their child or correct them in any way.  These are the same stupid-ass kids that run wild in restaurants while I’m trying to eat and their parents sit there as though there is nothing wrong. 

I sit in disbelief every time I watch these little f**khead children run all over their parents as their parents struggle to control them as well as grasp the reasoning behind why their kids don’t listen.  It’s called discipline, or in their case, a lack of discipline. 

Not to put too fine a point on this, but does anyone else see a a correlation between this generation of violent, gun totting teenagers and the lack of discipline and copping abilities they were taught as children.  Almost every single one of these nitwits that shoot up a school leaves behind a video tape of them ranting about how frustrated they were and how they couldn’t handle being picked on. 

So, lets continue to shield our kids from the real world and learning to deal with success and failure and create a new generation of ultra-frustrated teens who can only deal with their frustration by shooting up a school.