Everyone needs a hand now and then. Sometimes an applauding hand, but more often the need is for a helping hand. There's nothing wrong with needing help, and there's nothing wrong with asking for and accepting help.
There is something very wrong with taking help for granted.
Today's 'children' are too often guilty of that. They have taken no responsibility for themselves, so that when hard times happen, they greedily grab up every offer of assistance, demand more, and than wonder why no one respects them.
It doesn't matter if they are 25, college (paid for by parents) graduates sitting on their behind playing video or computer games while they wait for the job offers to pour in. These are the job offers attached to graduation . Who ever heard of working for a job before working at one?
It doesn't matter if they are single moms with multiple children of multiple sirage. Many of them -- not all -- are waiting for someone else to pay their rent, their childcare, their this or that.
They are not any different from the first example. They are no different.
They expect help handed to them, because no one has taught them any different way. They haven't even been taught to ask for help. Why would anyone expect them to think of saying "thank you."?
No one has taught them how.
No one has shown the way.
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