I think the answer is that some kids have always been spoiled throughout time and some were not, either because their parents refused to, or could not for financial reasons. I don't think that the spoiled child is anything new. I grew up going to a very elite private school (I was not rich- I got to go there for reduced tuition because my dad taught there), and even back in the 1970s and 80s, there were kids being bought hundreds of dollars worth of expensive clothes, cars, etc. Maybe kids just look more spoiled these days because now they mostly turn to technology for fun rather than toys, and their gadgets are just much more impressive-looking. A kid with a tablet does look more spoiled (to some) than a kid with a Barbie dollhouse...though I just checked the prices and in some cases the dollhouses cost more! Don't let that new-fangled technology fool you into thinking kids these days are more spoiled.

@SpecialFlowers said:

I think the answer is that some kids have always been spoiled throughout time and some were not either because their parents refused to, or could not for financial reasons. I don't think that the spoiled child is anything new. I grew up going to a very elite private school (I was not rich- I got to go there for reduced tuition because my dad taught there), and even back in the 1970s and 80s, there were kids being bought hundreds of dollars worth of expensive clothes, cars, etc. Maybe kids just look more spoiled these days because now they mostly turn to technology for fun rather than toys, and their gadgets are just much more impressive-looking. A kid with a tablet does look more spoiled (to some) than a kid with a Barbie dollhouse...though I just checked the prices and in some cases the dollhouses cost more! Don't let that new-fangled technology fool you into thinking kids these days are more spoiled.

Right I think it's just what's available exists in so much variety now, but she's a 4th grader with 10k worth of tech. I didn't get a cell phone until I was in 7th grade.

My experience taking her shopping was half amazment and half jealousy 😝

@CalabrianQueen said:

Right I think it's just what's available exists in so much variety now, but she's a 4th grader with 10k worth of tech. I didn't get a cell phone until I was in 7th grade.

My experience taking her shopping was half amazment and half jealousy 😝

I agree that 10K of tech is too much for someone at such a young age. I didn't get my first cell phone until, well actually I can't even remember, but I was in college at the earliest. Maybe even after college. Before that if I ran into an emergency I had to send a telegraph to Mankato and wait for the US Marshalls to show up!

@SpecialFlowers said:

@CalabrianQueen said:

Right I think it's just what's available exists in so much variety now, but she's a 4th grader with 10k worth of tech. I didn't get a cell phone until I was in 7th grade.

My experience taking her shopping was half amazment and half jealousy 😝

I agree that 10K of tech is too much for someone at such a young age. I didn't get my first cell phone until, well actually I can't even remember, but I was in college at the earliest. Maybe even after college. Before that if I ran into an emergency I had to send a telegraph to Mankato and wait for the US Marshalls to show up!

I think this is more of a Dad spoiling thier Daughter situation. Usually mothers don't over do it but we fathers have a soft spot for our daughters.

When we adopted my daughter I spoiled her rotten , bought her anything she wanted and Mrs. Fox did not approve.

She turned out well though so I regret nothing 😏

A friend’s daughter is 11. Dad’s a little indulgent—Mom not at all.

But, she has a lock on Dad’s side of the family when it comes to overindulgence. But, it’s not all her fault—(she is her Dad’s side one and only girl)—they are so over the moon to have her to make a fuss over that I think it’s the relatives who are spoiled. Spoiled by all the fun they have in buying things/doing things for her.

@CalabrianQueen said:

Just an off topic anecdote to take our minds off the depressing news about our show ending.

The other day I was tasked with taking my 9 year old cousin back to school shopping . Im thinking her parents would give me maybe 100-200 bucks to supervise her with. No. Her dad(My uncle) gives me 700 bucks and told me to let her purchase what she wants within reason.Not only did she spend the entire 700 bucks on new stuff, clothes, supplies etc, he texts me that day asking me if I have the quickpay app so he could send me more money to spend for her if necessary.Not only that but Im amazed by how many THINGS she has.

She has an Iphone at nine years old. Her own widescreen TV. A laptop, and desktop computer . A tablet , an Amazon Echo and a smartwatch. I don't have 1/4 of those things.

And I thought my dad spoiled me when I was a kid.

It's not spoiling.

These things are just bigger, more expensive "toys".

Kids need toys.

I bet the parents here have all the very same toys and more. Not to mention that all the toys will have to be replaced/updated on a regular basis.

My issue isn't with their 'toys'. Though there should be limits on time spent with phones and iPads. My issue is with lawn mower parents who want to remove any obsticle that challenges their kids. This "No more oral reports" in school, because not EVERY kid can speak in public, removing score keeping from Little League and other sports. This over-litigated rule where now playgrounds are barren of see-saws and monkey bars (the latter is probably 'racist' now), and where dodgeball is banned because little Jimmy took one in the chops. The whole "Everyone gets a trophy and an orange slice" concept. Part of kids experiencing disappointment and challenges is so they learn COPING mechanisms. It's one of many factors that's seeing teen and even younger suicide rates skyrocketing.

Many kids today are heading towards real adjustment issues when they get into the 'real' world. Many millennials called in sick, some for DAYS, after the election because they were 'distraught'. This whole notion of 'safe spaces', and colleges bringing in puppies and ponies for the students to pet during finals week, WTF is going on?

The Greatest Generation must sit back and break their necks from shaking their heads so much.

@censorshipsucks06 said:

My issue isn't with their 'toys'. Though there should be limits on time spent with phones and iPads. My issue is with lawn mower parents who want to remove any obsticle that challenges their kids. This "No more oral reports" in school, because not EVERY kid can speak in public, removing score keeping from Little League and other sports. This over-litigated rule where now playgrounds are barren of see-saws and monkey bars (the latter is probably 'racist' now), and where dodgeball is banned because little Jimmy took one in the chops. The whole "Everyone gets a trophy and an orange slice" concept. Part of kids experiencing disappointment and challenges is so they learn COPING mechanisms. It's one of many factors that's seeing teen and even younger suicide rates skyrocketing.

Many kids today are heading towards real adjustment issues when they get into the 'real' world. Many millennials called in sick, some for DAYS, after the election because they were 'distraught'. This whole notion of 'safe spaces', and colleges bringing in puppies and ponies for the students to pet during finals week, WTF is going on?

The Greatest Generation must sit back and break their necks from shaking their heads so much.

Does that mean that you will have an issue with my Comfort Tribble . I used to have a Comfort Horta but it kept running off into caves.

@znexyish said:

Does that mean that you will have an issue with my Comfort Tribble . I used to have a Comfort Horta but it kept running off into caves.

That's because it can't survive for long in your atmosphere. How cruel of you, expecting it to exist in oxygen!

@Knixon said:

@znexyish said:

Does that mean that you will have an issue with my Comfort Tribble . I used to have a Comfort Horta but it kept running off into caves.

That's because it can't survive for long in your atmosphere. How cruel of you, expecting it to exist in oxygen!

Dammit Knixon! I'm a doctor not a bricklayer!

And he actually used that line in that episode! But even McCoy knew that it couldn't survive (for long) in an oxygen atmosphere.

@Knixon said:

And he actually used that line in that episode! But even McCoy knew that it couldn't survive (for long) in an oxygen atmosphere.

It was the first time that the "I'm a doctor not a ....." line was used in the show as well. Now don't worry I took the silicon based life form back to its silicon based home.

@Knixon said:

And he actually used that line in that episode! But even McCoy knew that it couldn't survive (for long) in an oxygen atmosphere.

Where do you get that? Nothing was said in the ep about it.

Again?

KIRK: All right, how about this? A creature that lives deep in the planet below us, at home in solid rock. It seems to me that in order to survive, it would have to have some form of natural armour plating.

SPOCK: It could explain much, especially since the colonists are armed only with phaser one.

KIRK: But our people have phaser number two.

SPOCK: Which I could adjust to be more effective against silicon.

MCCOY: Silicon-based life is physiologically impossible, especially in an oxygen atmosphere.

SPOCK: It may be, Doctor, that the creature can exist for brief periods in such an atmosphere before returning to its own environment.

MCCOY: I still think you're imagining things.