Great post! Kids now a days are missing some important lessons because of the pampering they get. I grew up in an Irish Catholic neighborhood just outside of Chicago and on a regular basis while out playing with my little chums a group of older boys would show up to give us our "tough lessons". These usually consisted of push ups, sit ups and jumping jacks. They also had us run an obstical course and then just plain knocked us around. Sometimes we thought they were mean. One thing was for sure we learned to take our knocks and not whine about it. Psycologists call it distress tolerance now a days, we called it "not bein a whimp". We never retaliated by belting frends and family we just figured out how to out smart or out tough the older boys the next time they came around. Seems folks now a days when they run head long into lifes many injustices either give up or lash out in ways we never would have thought of. Now I'm not recommending we knock the neighbor's kids around but we need to discourage our kids from getting caught up in self pity and teach them better ways to cope other than shootin the fella that called them a name(Thank you Hollywood for that bit of disfunctionality)
Off the Soap Box Now
Don
Off the Soap Box Now
Don