[nopardons]

"CODDLED"? I was hardly "coddled"; but rather, I was raised very well unlike others, whose parents gave their toddlers, or even a bit older children tokes on a cigarette and hard liquor to drink, to "teach them a lesson, or whatever the dumb thing you claimed.

And you only imagine that this was "normal", due to the fact that you obviously ONLY have ever been around lousy parents.

[Jonty30]

It sounds like to me that you were coddled. May be you came from a family of non-smokers or drinkers. However, in those households that did, they saw value in not just telling their children to not smoke or drink. They allowed a single experience, that wouldn’t hurt them, to show why instead.