Oh for goodness sake!

How did THIS happen? Especially with the Baby Boomer generation? Let your kids freakin' do there own thing! Isn't that what you guys wanted when you were in 60s? Don't control me, let me find myself, let me experiment, let me tune in and drop out...or whatever the frick that stuff was.

Yet now I'm reading article after article in the Globe and Mail and MacLeans with guides for parents and Dos and Don'ts for parents...like this:

(from The Globe and Mail)

WHAT IF MY SON ADOPTS A STRICT DIET OF PIZZA AND BEER?
DON'T demand a calorie-by-calorie report of what they ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

DO stealthily eye them when they return home for Thanksgiving to check out whether they're starting to bulge out of their sweater or pick at their food.

WHAT ABOUT ALL THOSE WILD CAMPUS SEX ROMPS?
DON'T assume your 18-year-old daughter will be coerced into a threesome during frosh week.

DO slip a few sex books into a care package or e-mail her some links to sexual health websites so she can get the tips without risking pressuring her to tell all about her sexcapades.

More signs that the Helicopter Baby Boomer parents are insane:

COULD YOU SEND ME HIS REQUIRED BOOK LIST? HE WON'T KNOW HOW TO BUY HIS BOOKS.

"The university admissions service, says that in response to the number of calls from parents that it has decided to allow parents to act as their children’s representatives in handling applications."

Oh for goodness sake. No wonder our country will never have dynamic leaders. The young'uns are all being mothered to death. They participate in sports as kids where there's no winner and no loser, because, "We don't want to discourage children at a young age." Teachers in the school system aren't allowed to fail a student, "Because it will discourage them and make them hate school."

So we have soft young adults going to university with mum and dad hovering around their first independent experience.

Lay off, will you? Kids can buy their own books. Kids will go over budget once in a while. Kids will slack off and skip the odd class. But they'll be doing it all for themselves, they'll figure it out. Unless you keep doing all the thinking for them...and then they'll just be sad softies with no capacity to face a challenge or deal with failure.

Umm, I know I'm generalizing. This was just bugging me, you know?

Thanks and good luck.