Welcome, MBO.

I know plenty of young people (19 and under), and young professionals (20-30). Most of them are a joy to have around. With regard to my own children I've worked hard to teach them what they need to know to be self-reliant, strong and smart. I had some good pre-parenting experience helping to raise my much younger brother. I've been mentoring less-experienced people at work for much of my working life, and there's no doubt that I'm a better parent as a result of the experience.

There are some parents out there that seem to be intent on raising over-entitled, spoiled, unintelligent and useless parasites. I've caught my children looking at these brats like they were studying so many disgusting insects, and it makes me proud.