In this season of thanksgiving, many kids are suffering from a new strain of flu. Psychologists say the disease strikes children who have too much, are given too much, and too little is asked of them. Ken Hoats, a psychologist and school counselor says the disease is spreading among teenagers. It's not just a disease of the affluent, although many of us are affluent in this country without realizing it. It's more of an attitude of I deserve without giving at all.
Kids say it's contagious.
They think, oh you have a pair of a certain kind of shoes, now I have to have a pair of those shoes. There's a lot of peer pressure. Our parents do everything for us. But, there is a cure. Hoats says kids heal when parents spend time with them.