I worked in schools for 35 years and what a HUGE change there has beeen in the behaviour of children. Parents, many of them at least, have become hostages to the whims of thier children, they are afraid to say no to them, they don;t see much of them, ,,,six hours at school ,five hours at day care. Parents and children have become strangers to each other and it shows because many parents are overcompensating for being absent parents by giving into the kids every whim. It scare me.