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I am surprised to see this happening in the USA, I thought that UK had the title sewn up for "Unbelievably Stupid Jobsworths"

• venomsnake 13y ago
  It is metastazing in the whole world. The whole overprotection thing. Our parents assumed that we were both smart and reckless. And parented accordingly. The current generation is brought up as if they are retards. The child safety is blown out of proportion ... in a friends house every edge was child proofed ...
  • csense 13y ago
    Part of the problem is that people these days have fewer children, closer together. Before, say, 1970, people learned parenting because there were lots of both much younger siblings and large families with lots of uncles/cousins living close by. Now families are small and geographically spread out, so people don't have lots of exposure to younger children. This means they don't get as much practical experience at dealing with kids, which makes them do stupid things, listen to stupid advice, or fall into groupthink.