[janjan]

"[...] therefore making the saying "just do it" or "suck it up" an appropiate response, which as you rightly discovered, got lost on modern parents"

I had a discussion with my mother about this. To make a long story short she raised me this way because her father was a very very strict person. She had to work all the time in the household and therefore did did not have a nice childhood at all.

When I was born she decided that i should have a much better childhood... The result: I had a perfect childhood (from the viewpoint of a child) but now I am plagued with some serious procrastination problem. In contrast my, my mother is one of the most organized and reliable persons I know.

[markyc]

It's never too late to start being proactive. It's tempting to find scapegoats when things get tough, but that's actually of little help. Better to take control and start doing. (it sounds like oversimplifying it, but actually industry breeds industry, while laziness breeds depression).

So start small, and do one proactive thing right now :)

[usedtolurk]

I would be careful about jumping to that conclusion. Perhaps you would procrastinate just as much if you had been forced to do unpleasant chores. No way of knowing for sure.