As times change, so do parenting techniques. What parents have believed as gospel truth about raising children a decade or two ago may not be applicable to the current era. As culture, technology, and many other factors have influenced behavior with the passage of time, both children and parents today share a generational rift that tends to disconnect them from each other. For this modern, technology-driven age of social media and instant gratification, parenting expert Amy McCready homes in on what she calls the ?entitlement pandemic? in her book, The Me, Me, Me Epidemic: A Step-by-Step Guide to Raising Capable, Grateful Kids in an Over-Entitled World.