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>Not to mention that a little bit of adversity breeds resilience. If you're coddled from all criticisms, you deal less well with other stressors. That's the so
by shardling 14y ago
>Not to mention that a little bit of adversity breeds resilience. If you're coddled from all criticisms, you deal less well with other stressors.
That's the sort of psychological pablum that sounds reasonable, but I'm not sure it's actually true.
- vacri 14y agoIt's a generational phenomenon hitting the children of helicopter parents, and similarly hitting the One Child Policy children in China.
- droidist2 14y agoI think this is often overstated. Every generation thinks today's kids "have it easy" and "are soft." In previous times it was more about the physical or about working with your hands. Now because the world is more about the mental and social we accuse kids of being emotionally soft. When you think about it though, imagine growing up with today's technology. Think about how bad Facebook can make you feel, when everyone seems to be having a good time and living perfect lives (because that's what they want you to see). Or how public life and the possibility of embarrassment, awkwardness, and ridicule can now follow us everywhere. Now remember how stressful being a teenager and going to high school can be on its own. I really don't know how kids today handle it.