Reply #83: It's not love. It's laziness.

[Hello_Kitty]

Too many parents are scared of their own damn kids. All this psychobabble about "self esteem" has led a lot of parents to avoid confronting their little darlings at all costs. It's easier to do everything for them than it is to force them to do for themselves. It's gotten so bad that 2 women in Canada wrote a book about how to teach young adults to do basic things they should have learned by the time they were preteens. http://www2.canada.com/topics/lifestyle/backtoschool/story.html?id=e3e8fd70-c5eb-4774-b928-716543dcfc09