COLUMN: Getting too chummy with children does them a disservice

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | 12:01 a.m. CST; updated 9:49 a.m. CDT, Wednesday, May 12, 2010

A friend, who is one of those doting grandparents I keep talking about, was upset the other day. Having retired in the same neighborhood in which he grew up, he was complaining about the negative changes that have come about.

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