Are we raising a generation of helpless children?

I thought this article was interesting.

It talks about generation Y.

Some people claim children born in 1980 are in generation Y. This article says 1984.
I am on the border of being at the end of Generation X or the very start of Generation Y.

Read this interesting article here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Mickey-goodman/are-we-raising-a-generati_b_1249706.html

Family psychologist John Rosenmond in a Feb. 2^nd article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution points out that new research finds that rewards often backfire, producing the opposite effect of that intended. When an aggressive child is rewarded for not being aggressive for a short period of time, he is likely to repeat the bad behavior to keep the rewards coming.