Really, parents of today?

I work with kids this summer at a summer camp. Normally, I like working with kids. You get to help shape up the future, or at least get a nice update on how the future is going to work out. 

Based on the kids I work with, our planet is doomed. 

Sure, you have the one or two nice ones, but they're the minority in that generation. Most of the kids I work with throw so many temper tantrums I'm surprised they haven't pounded their feet and hands raw. They throw tantrums for the worst things, too. Last week, after we had swim, it was just one other counsellor and I with a dozen girls. We had been able to get all of them to get their towels and shoes after about five minutes of trying. 

Except for one. 

She refused to get her shoes on and to pick up her towel, and I went over to talk to her. She covered her ears and started screaming, so I sat there in silence until she stopped. I waited for her to be able to look at me, since I had dealt with her tantrums before and I knew how to deal with them. After about twenty minutes, I asked her what's wrong, she finally answered, and after another five minutes, she gave me an answer as to why she refused to listen. 

"I didn't know why there was grass on my towel."

People of the internet, there was no grass on her towel. Not one blade. And she's not a toddler or anything, folks. If she was a toddler, three or four, five at the max, I wouldn't have been annoyed, not in the slightest. I mean, it's normal for a toddler to be a little confused. But once a kid gets older, you need to draw the line where they're misbehaving for a reason or misbehaving for the sake of misbehaving. 

I had another kid once who had a thirty minute screaming fit because her mom didn't pack a pirate hat in her bag. Four people tried calming her down, and her only argument made them all walk away on the verge of laughter. 

"I want it! I want it! I want my pirate hat! I wanna wear it! I want it!"

Ladies and gentlemen of the Earth, "ladies" and trolls of the internet, to put it plainly, today's children are spoiled.

When I was younger, if I tried an I want it argument, my parents would have sent me to my room for a few hours or at least had a serious talk with me, and that was getting it off easy when you think of some families, cultures, or religions. Seriously now people, disciplining your child is not illegal. Even if it doesn't sound like such a big deal now, there are some serious problems in the future that you will not be able to avoid if you keep pampering them. 

>_< And that has been what bothered me today.