We all know people who are a few feathers shy of a full duck. I  told Pat it’s because they don’t want to work.  She said, “No, it’s because they don’t know they are supposed to work.  Everything has been done for them.  And also, they don’t know how to work.  This generation has been raised without chores to do, and with expectations for success that aren’t realistic.  

She said that when she asks them to sweep the barn floor at the arena, they don’t know what a broom is.  “I have to get a broom, explain the concept of removing dirt from the floor and show them how to do it.  There are dozens of things like that that they don’t know how to do. 

She said we have infanticized them with the concept that everyone gets a trophy and they haven’t learned the pleasure of doing something that you do well.  Better than others.  Work brings a self satisfying reward that they haven’t had the opportunity to learn.  It was an interesting conversation.