therantguy:

What new age nonsense is it that granny should let Mom handle any discipline issues?

It's generally considered rude to discipline someone else's children without permission.....

therantguy:

You all want to call the cops for what was probably standard parenting thirty years ago (which you all seemed to survive in one piece)

I am 30. My parents never hit me. I turned out just fine. And you certainly can't tell me that standard parenting 30 years ago involved allowing non-family members to wallup someone else's children.

therantguy:

as if we aren't way worse off because parenting (which took a village) now is the sole responsibility of one or two people who can't handle anything resembling real life happening to their precious little offspring.

A good sign of old age is that you whine about kids today. Soon you'll be shouting "Get off my lawn!" and shaking your fist ineffectually at the neighborhood kids. People have been whining about children since the dawn of time. Kids today are fine. Just as they were fine when you were a kid and the "greatest generation" whined about how bad you guys were.

therantguy:

I deal with the results of this kind of parenting every day...they won't file because it's beneath them...they want to be CEO on day three...they don't understand why we won't pay them to spend six hours on Facebook all day...

Then obviously your HR department is completely useless because there are plenty of hard working people, both young and old, looking for jobs out there.