Duh.

I'm going to go with the researchers over the idiot college sophomore on this one. How do you combat the growing narcissism in the United States? The solution doesn't exist in our society anymore. Authoritative parenting? What's that? Try telling you neighbors you practice authoritative parenting and see how quick CPS shows up at your door. Spankings are considered beatings these days. And who has time to watch their kid sit in the corner for five minutes? And what does that really teach a child anyway. Parents today are told that they must shield their children from pain and consequence. I love to sound politically incorrect so I'm just going to ahead and blame the single mothers and deabeat dads of America. Mothers tend to want to protect their precious angels and without dad around to say, "I got hit in the head with a dodgeball lots of times. It's no big deal. Go rub some dirt on it, Junior!," I see little hope. Of course, another problem is that the only dads that seem to be sticking around are the ones who who were getting hit in the head a little too much, so now they're out to spare everyone's children the humiliation of learning that they are uncoordinated spazzes. And another thing, children aren't learning to lose graciously anymore. Or lose at all for that matter. Little League games end in ties no matter what these days. Retarded. Too bad the rest of the world doesn't play as fair. We're all going to learn the hard way.