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Youth are happier with more regimentation and now they have less. Adults are happier with less regimentation and now we have... less! It's tough to be a kid in
by standardUser 2y ago
Youth are happier with more regimentation and now they have less. Adults are happier with less regimentation and now we have... less!
It's tough to be a kid in an increasingly diverse and changing society. Especially when they are on the forefront of that cultural transformation and have to face relentless attacks from a large part of the adult establishment. We probably need new and different ways to teach and engage with kids, but instead the conversation usually ends up about phones or pronouns. Like when people used to complain about too much TV and violent video games. These specific obsessions distract from the actual issues, which is and has always been about making mental health a core focus of our society.
- blowski 2y ago> Youth are happier with more regimentation Are you saying young people like being given rules?
- standardUser 2y agoThere's a boatload of research showing kids do better overall with structure, stability and routine.
- blowski 2y agoSo they benefit from the extra “regimentation”, although whether they like it or not is another matter.
- andix 2y agoIf you're an average person and don't require acceptance of diversity, the whole topic is miniscule. There are some newspaper articles discussing it, you just skip them, because you don't care. A new coworker tells you to call them with some pronoun, you use that pronoun, as easy as remembering their name. You might walk past a rainbow flag, without even noticing it. It's not relevant to the majority, unless they want to obsess about it and want to feel offended by it. But maybe the need to find something to be obsessed and feel threatend about is exactly the issue here. It can be anything that's different than it used to be. It might be also something that is exactly as it used to be and doesn't change.