Parents do too much for kids, IMO. My favorite, besides parents fighting at Little League games, is when the mothers get into the arguments of jr. hi girls.
When I was a kid the kids sold their stuff and the parents stayed out of it. That's how kids learned.
One of the funniest things I remember about GS cookies was when my best friend and I, we were 9 years old, went to the father of another friend to sell our cookies. He bought one from each of us but only had a dollar bill--cookies were $.50--and neither of us had change.
She and I got into an argument who was going to get the dollar and he finally just tore in two leaving us gaping at each other with our mouths wide open.
Too bad Norman Rockwell wasn't there because it was definitely a NR moment..
That’s a good story and obviously a lesson remembered over the years.