I think its important for parents to tell their kids that yes they're special, but no one is perfect. My parents told me that I was special and smart and all of those things, but I am very well grounded in the fact that you get out of life what you put in to it. I accept my grades as what I've earned without question (unless there really is a mistake, and even then I try to approach it in a very respectful way).
I agree that some kids are raised to believe that they're the greatest thing to grace the earth. Life is going to be very hard for them once they enter the real world.
napolitana869 Reviewed by napolitana869 on . Blame It on Mr. Rogers! Blame It on Mr. Rogers: Why Young Adults Feel So Entitled July 5, 2007; Page B5 MOVING ON By JEFF ZASLOW WSJ Online Don Chance, a finance professor at Louisiana State University, says it dawned on him last spring. The semester was ending, and as usual, students were making a pilgrimage to his office, asking for the extra points needed to lift their grades to A's. "They felt so entitled," he recalls, "and it just hit me. We can blame Mr. Rogers." Rating: 5