Parents of this kind do their children no favours whatsoever. Do they not realise their remarks are up there for everyone to see and remember? The lack of self-awareness staggers me. What will happen when children get older and realise their parents complained about their bed-wetting and such online? It's mortifying. I'd hate to be those children (and I have recently spoken to at least one whose mother said the most horrendous things about him online when he was younger, only for him to discover them later on).

As for the university thing, it used to be the case (here in the UK anyway) that going to university was a rite of passage where you learned to stand on your own feet, make some mistakes, learn from them, and generally become a proper adult, without idiotic mollycoddling. If this is the way things are headed, where an 18 year old lacks the initiative to locate toilet paper, then we are all doomed.