I was nodding as I read your entire article. It is becoming a sad world. However I will say that from all of your writting that I have had the pleasure of reading, your boys would have been the boy that offered help. There is no other way around it. Plain and simple our children learn what they live. The good. The bad. Even the ugly. I truely believe this and try to show my children the way that I would hope they would act. ( As I know you do as well, because while I do not know you, I have read you and in my mind we are friends..LOL) I have had my children ask if it is okay to help older people with putting away their shoping carts at the grocery. Of course it is. I have witnessed my youngest daughter see a woman drop her wallet at a baseball game and she picked it up and chased her down to return it. I can only hope I have taught them enough about kindness and paying it forward to know that someday if they saw you (or anyone) struggle with your suitcase no matter how many pairs of shoes were packed in it they would offer to help you.