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Making “adulthood more desirable” is more of the same coddling and extending childhood indefinitely. More prompting, enticing and encouragement isn’t going to h
by DwnVoteHoneyPot 4y ago
Making “adulthood more desirable” is more of the same coddling and extending childhood indefinitely. More prompting, enticing and encouragement isn’t going to help.
At some point kids are going to have to make decisions on necessity, not desire. Based on hunger.
- knorker 4y agoYou got downvoted, but you're hinting at a good point. Today we are told that any discomfort is unacceptable, and you are owed living a life without it. I think a lot of "adulting" is rejected because it comes with downsides. And more and more people seem to demanding no such downsides. They are owed cherry picking the gains, with no requirement for any of the work for it. E.g. take this comment, where this person is saying "someone else" owes them all financial compensation for a child, and on top of that they deserve a living wage salary to just be a parent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31638715 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31638715
- streamlining 4y ago
- naet 4y agoI think it's the opposite. We don't need more "coddling" or protection from decision making. We don't need less adulthood... what we would benefit from IMO is keeping more of the positives of youth into adulthood. Things like a shared social context, freedom of play, continued education, and encouragements of creativity.