[redwitch]

Don't know about you but my father walked 5 miles to school every day -- barefooted, in the snow and uphill both ways. There was no milkman or a store to buy the milk -- he had to milk the cow before going to school. His sister had to feed the chickens and get the eggs before she walked with him to school, but she was lucky -- she had shoes even though they were a size too big and had holes in them. His mother worked from sun up to past sundown cooking and cleaning. His father was the local sheriff but also worked in the coal mines (night shift). Yup, we kids didn't know what hard work was and had no clue about sacrifice.

The point is every generation has their stories, their hardships, their pluses and minuses. I'm sure our grandkids will be telling their kids how hard they had it because they had to go to schools and be bullied. They didn't have the advantage of using iPads to go to classes wherever they were hanging at the time. They had clunky, energy-wasting laptops and, even worse, PCs where their parents would stand behind them and watch what they were doing online.

It's not this generation's fault they have no clue what life was life when we grew up anymore than we're responsible for not understanding our parents' more rural life. We definitely had it better than our parents -- that was the goal of parents. Our kids should have it better/easier than we did (not so sure they really do, though). So, why do we constantly put the next generation down for having it better?