What's wrong with our kids?

Perhaps this sums it up for at least a portion of those younguns that we pose this question about.....

All the wrong messages.  I do believe that.  There's a great song by my favorite 'folk' singer (if we still have folk singers today) Peter Mayer.  Should you try to google him, it's the Peter Mayer from Minnesota and yes, he is a folk singer - http://www.petermayer.net/news/. Anyway, he does this wonderful song about t-ball and how it relates to life.  Part of the lyrics, and my favorite part - I might add, is that everybody gets a trophy in t-ball.  Well, guess what?  Everybody does NOT get a trophy in life.  It's hard.  Usually what you get for 'just showing up' is bupkis, zero, nada, nothing!  Now, I don't think that we need to raise our kids like that wacky tiger mom, but a little reality early on could, I this mother's humble opinion, make for more productive and better adjusted and balanced young adults as they enter college and the workplace.  I just didn't want my son looking around at 25 and asking where his participation trophy is.  It just doesn't work that way!

My rant for today!  Perhaps it's the heat... my iPhone tells me it's 105 here in Texas today!  Ugh!  Makes me sweat just typing it!

Nita