Starting Over Talk - Peer Coaching Support Site

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I tend to often see very involved parents in their children's lives. They are caring, loving and attentive parents, but they have from an early age allowed the kids to rule over them. Whatever the kids say goes. They caudle the kids so much and cave in to their every whim, that they create monsters.

When the kids are alcoholic or drug addicts, the parents keep tolerating the abuse and never put a foot down and stop the enabling. They are told they are not doing the kids any favors by continuing to support the destructive behavior, but they just refuse to stop.

Okay, I'll get off my soapbox now. This is a sore spot with me because I have seen this kind of thing within my own family as well as close family friends. These kids usually started out as spoiled brats and then grew into "adult kids" who never took responsibility for anything in their life. It's sad to see, but I can't forget that these parents were major contributors to the problem because they had no back bone.

No, I'm not a meany and I do have compassion for those in pain, but enough is enough.