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Kids are crazy, right? When they\\u2019re hungry, they are rude and difficult to manage. They are demanding and seem incapable, most of the time, of doing anything for themselves. They are totally ungrateful for what people do for them. In fact, a lot of the time they are completely unaware that anyone exists in the world but themselves.\\xa0

This is not new, obviously. In the 1600s, the French satirist Jean de La Bruy\\xe8re captured the timelessness of the selfishness of the young. \\u201cChildren are overbearing,\\u201d he wrote, \\u201csupercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys and sorrows, and that about the most trifling objects; they bear no pain, but like to inflict it on others.\\u201d It\\u2019s all true.\\xa0

And so is the kicker with which he ended his observation, \\u201c...already they are men.\\u201d

The point being: Before you complain about how selfish and crazy your kids are, we ought to look in the mirror. Don\\u2019t we get hangry? Don\\u2019t we take people for granted? Don\\u2019t we alternate between elation and frustration? Don\\u2019t we get excited by trivial things? Aren\\u2019t we incapable of regulating our emotions and our desires? And haven\\u2019t we had a lot more time to practice these things too?

Cut them a break. You cut yourself plenty.

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