I recently appeared on our local abc T.V. station program, The View From the Bay with Spencer Christian and Janelle Wang. The following weekend I went to teach my seminar, “How to Get Your Teens and Young Adults to Independence”, at a local community college and a constant comment kept coming up so I figured this was the time to address it. Whenever I talk about how we Baby Boomers have created this new generation who has never worked, people tell me that these children have an overblown sense of “entitlement”. The word keeps popping up as if these children demanded at some point that they do nothing and receive all they wish in life. It isn’t that they arrived in the world with a sense of entitlement, they have been trained to be welfare receipients with the welfare givers being their parents. I think this is a much more correct view of what is going on because the blame starts with the parents who have created this.

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