I feel sorry for you thinking your kids are entitled, lazy brats who think you owe them a free ride.
Our kids are frugal, understand life through the school of hard knocks, all have college degrees, and have good careers started. They are financially independent, hard working and doing well. They have always been generous to Mom & Dad and are more so now that they have good careers. We like helping them out when we can, but they really want to do it on their own and often turn down our offers to help them out a bit. I hope we are in a position to help them with part of a house down payments when the time comes.
Happy New Year.
Place in the country, ammo, non-perishable food. Mortgage paid off, no debt, sufficient savings that I could retire tomorrow. I try to talk to kids coming out of college about the importance of saving and investing early. The ones that are liberal tend to look terrified at the thought. I guess they are destined to go through life making bad choices.