One thing I have noticed is that the US based Kids TV channels have this annoying habit of making out that no one is a looser any more and everyone is special and a winner.
Even in the website games on Disney you dont have the Wrong answer, you are told that thats a great choice, but try again.
Is that why we have the Gen Y brat 'I want it now' generation ?? Its my right etc. No its bloody not !!! Sit down and shut up. And turn that stupid freaking phone off before I ram it up your arse......
Moving on we had a dance show for my daughter before Christmas where her group was 2nd on stage. its all very cute etc, except when its 42degrees in a tin shed in bumble-f**k nowhere and the kids are running amuck. Thing is we were told to stay to the end as everyone gets a prize. Cool we thought, she'll love that.
Problem was three hours later I had to explain the Child number 1 why she didn't get anything. And I wasn't the only one. Sure for the older agegroups there were skill based prizes but for the three years olds there was nothing. Not even a token bag 'o' lollies or a $1 Well Done badge.
I met another mother the next day whose daughter is in the same class and she said the same thing - unconsolable sobbing on the car drive home.
So maybe the kids as so whipped up to thinking they are going to get everything and be winners that they can't cope when they get nothing. Or maybe its just cruel to promise and not deliver...
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