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[QUOTE="HastingsCuse, post: 4878985, member: 301"]
As a Boomer, with 3 kids born between 1991 and 2002, and as a youth sports coach for 25 years, I completely disagree with the generalization that Millennials and Gen Z are undisciplined and spoiled by their parents and by social media.  Every kid is different and my kids and and most of their friends and most of the kids I coached were hard working and responsible.  And some are a__holes, just like other generations. And sometimes they are infuriating to their parents.

Years ago we traveled to Utica for the 15K Boilermaker.  My then 14 year old daughter was running her first race.  When we leaving the house my older son was packing the car and put down my daughter's running bag (running shoes, shorts, socks, shirt and bra) to respond to a text so we got to Utica without it.  After an inital approprite outburst, she ran the race with oversized everything borrowed from a cousin without a complaint ever being made.   I don't think she's exceptional and I don't think it has anything to do with our parenting, it just how most kids would have handled it.    (FYI If my older son's bag had been left home he would have started an epic -bomb filled meltdown -  blame his Brookyn Italian mother's bloodlines - before eventually calming down and running the race.)

But I do agree that the coach shouldn't have called him out in the press conference - practice time ridicule would suffice.
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