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Paul Corfield <aooy65NOSPAM@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

>I don't think that's quite right. I think the problem is that kids
>*expect* to be given everything and to have the latest and best of
>everything and to have it *right now*. All this regardless of the cost
>because they have no concept of cost and partly because there is
>relentless peer pressure and advertising pressure to have the latest and
>best.

I really don't see any difference from when I was a kid. I
wanted the 14 (or however many) hole Dr Martin Boots, the
Levi jeans, the Claude Butler bike and all the rest of it
absolutely regardless of my parents ability, or will, to pay
for the lifestyle/possessions that I wated.

OK, advertising is more sophisticated but I don't think
Children are any different; mine are as big a pain as I was.