article_snippet: Out there in celebrity land, in the mink-lined nurseries of the filthy rich, a new breed of fearsomely spoilt children are being raised by a new breed of fearsomely spoilt children fearsomely spoilt parents.
article_snippet: Meanwhile, the gruesome irony of being given designer shoes before they can walk and expensive birthday parties before they can talk seems to be lost on they crazed, doting, cash-scattering parents.
article_snippet: Yet one wonders what will happen to all these poor little rich kids, barely out of the crib before all these poor little rich kids are bombarded by all the good things in life —
article_snippet: This torrent of luxury is supplied by no doubt well-meaning parents who seem not to know the meaning of restraint, the value of a pound or the concept of modesty.
article_snippet: Few of them have ever had to worry where the next million is coming from and sometimes there is the uncomfortable thought that children are just another accessory, a toy to pamper, a blank canvas upon which them can express how very, very rich them are and how very, very different them lives are from ours.
article_snippet: The impulse of any parent to spoil children and give children the best is understandable — but some extravaganzas go too far.
article_snippet: Look at children, as the diamonds rain down on children tiny shoulders and zebras clop up to children front doors.
article_snippet: It might be fun for the doting parents to show off and bask in all the luxury —
article_snippet: but what chance do children have of growing up normally, with even a faint grasp of reality?