CW wrote:
"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
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"Mark Wells" wrote in message

Even in the parent does a lot of the work and provides a lot of
knowledge, isn't there something to doing a project with your child?
It seems like that's missing these days.

You'd think that, but the wrong message is getting through in most cases.
Rather than becoming a chance for father son bonding, the lesson is WIN at
any cost. It is OK to use ringers, buy, instead of developing technology,
etc. I wonder how many kids never get to touch the car?



And what's wrong with that? It teaches them how things are done in a free
greed society such as ours. It instills in them the (lack of) morals to get
ahead. Victory at any cost. Screw anybody to get there.

What's wrong is that it doesn't teach the kid how to do his own
screwing. He ends up living in your basement while you write his
college application essays for him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_parent