Are we raising a generation of spoilt, entitled narcissistic children?!

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Following on from the school reports on Facebook post, I have grave concerns about this future generation of children currently being raised in a world of social media and with an amazing sense of entitlement (materially and emotionally and socially).

Will they expect to have and do everything with minimal effort because everything has been provided for them? Parents meeting their every need and buying anything they want. iPhones by age 10 etc. Constant selfies and too much self-absorption will make them selfish and narcissistic. Has there been any research yet on this?

I am really concerned for the future. I am a parent of 2 small children and as yet as they are so small, we are still in a bubble. How do I protect them but not make them too different and out of sync with their friends?

I'm concerned about it too. We seem to have so much more disposable cash than our parents did (well, my parents did!).

I also worry that they've got used to the lovely comfy life they have and what happens if they don't get jobs that mean they can support this lifestyle themselves? Massive credit card bills and lots of disappointment.

I try not to spoil them, but I have just given my ten year old a secondhand iphone for her birthday, because the vast majority of her friends are getting them. Plus as she walks home from school alone next year I want her to have a phone, but an iphone?

I dont have more money than my parents did, that is a massive generalisation.

Me either, tobysmum. So much generalisation on this thread. Keeping up with modern technology does not equal 'permissiveness'. Whatever that is. In every generation there will be parents who spoil their DC and fail to teach them boundaries or prepare them for life as an adult. This generation is no different.

I had a much more pampered, materialistic and indulged upbringing than DC. We are by no means poor now.

I have given DS (11) a second hand iPhone, too, FullOfChoc.

All I had to do was get a sim only deal, which was very cheap. I had had it for 4 years, and it had been on a sim only deal for two of those. So, the phone was all paid for, and still going strong. Why would I deny him the phone, because it is an iPhone?

He is delighted. As one of the last in his class to get a phone, he now has one of the best phones. (And this is at a private school, and it's only a 4s, which doesn't really tie in with The Youth Of Today all getting what they want, as soon as they demand it.)

Dds Iphone is on contract. She pays for it by doing jobs around the house and chose the iphone 4.

So is she spoiled an entitled because she happens to have an i-phone? or is it deemed acceptable because she didn't want the most recent one and earns it?

or does it just come down to the fact it has an 'i' at the front of its name?