We are raising a generation of children who never have lost (trophies all around), who have never had to try to accomplish anything, who never have lot a game and are told that they are "special" no matter what they do. Nothing is ever their fault, someone or something else "made" them do it. They have 100's of "friends" on Twitter, facebook or other non-social, social site. If they ever hear anything that they don't like - they just block or delete that comment. So, what happens when they don't get their way? They fly into a rage - because they know that they are entitled to whatever they want, when they want it. They have been told that no matter how mundane, how average they are - they are "special"; and now they are demanding that this coddling extend throughout childhood into the rest of their adult life. When they don't get their way - they lash out.
I personally blame Dr. Spock and his book which admonished parents to protect and allow a Child's childhood to be an unbridled sacrament to their "self-worth".
It's funny you mention that Bozo. I mark the publishing of his book (1946) as the point at which things started going to hell in a hand basket in society!!
I remember my parents being given one of his books as some kind of a prize back in the early 1950’s I also remember my dad sitting in the living room reading it, and later seeing it in the trashcan. Which was an appropriate place for it.
The most ironic thing is that this book was touted to parents as an ‘enlightened’ way to raise kids. Of course those same parents were part of a generation that survived the great depression, won World War II, and built the largest free market economy in the world.
And that results of the great Doctor Spock's ‘enlightenment’? Complete and total failure, without a single redeeming quality.