Supermoms = Superkids?

 A friend of mine has a daughter who is a "supermom", apparently. Just listening to the madness of the life with her three teens, is enough to make me happy to have come from a time when you just did what was required with tons of love. The result for us in "the good old days" was good kids and a happy life before and after. And please don't tell me that it's "different" now. "Now" does made it different but not too well, I submit. Our children had responsibilities in the home, chores they had to do to be part of the family. They also weren't given money other than a small allowance they had to manage to buy most of their own wants and needs. They always took on jobs that weren't aslways the nice ones such as being a "manager" in a nice fast food place. They entailed cleaning, child care, outside chores such as cutting grass, weeding gardens, delivering newspapers at all times and other not so cute jobs. My son worked in a service station including cleaning the washrooms, earned his own guitar, tee shirts, tickets to concerts and his own car eventually in the days when junkers were safe but affordable. No one drove him to games or gave him big ticket concert passes or anything more than music lessons that he had to get to himself if he wanted them. He grew up like any other teen who got into "things" and back out and he turned out fine. He became  a great husband, father and worker. As a child he wasn't given corporal punishment, but was "talked to", understood and very much loved. We trusted him to make good choices and if not, to deal with the consequences himself but with our support.  We communicated and spent a lot of time together when he wasn't out with his friends who were always welcome but expected to be respectful in our home. My friends' supermom kids  are driven everywhere to activities, they do no household chores, they are given whatever money they "need" or "want" and their many out of school activities are paid for. They don't cook or sew or do any housework. I wonder how they are going to survive when they graduate highschool and live on their own. Don't you?