I loved the passage given for the reading comprehension this time by CBSE for class 12. It’s about youth and values. It begins thus: “Too many parents these days can’t say no.” It goes on to argue why saying ‘no’ to children is important. Giving in to all the demands of children is paving the way of their ruin. It creates a generation of people who are never satisfied with anything they get, because they’ve been getting it all too easily. Easy availability is a dangerous thing. It makes you feel that you deserve the best. If you don’t get it, you will grab it by hook or by crook. That’s the kind of generation we have created, says the passage. “Today’s parents aren’t equipped to deal with the problem,” goes on the passage. “Many of them, raised in the 1960s and 70s” went through hard days. They were whipped at school and at home. They are the people, like me, whose parents went to the school and told the teachers, “Whip my child as much as you like. Make him/h
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