cool yet disturbing article

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A Nation of Wimps

By: Hara Estroff Marano
Summary: Parents are going to ludicrous lengths to take the bumps out of life for their children. However, parental hyperconcern has the net effect of making kids more fragile; that may be why they're breaking down in record numbers.


...Causes me to both bless and curse my parents on the same breath. They're not as bad as some of those mentioned, but, god. (ask lierdumoa sometime for the story sometime when my mother called her to hunt me down. she found her number via my phone bill. ::headdesk::)

On the one hand, I wonder how I survived. On the other, I take an honest look at myself, and wonder if I truly did.

Also:
"In an era of rampant grade inflation, some college students find it shocking to discover there are 26 letters in the alphabet"

le sigh.

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[kokkoryuha.livejournal.com]

I know my parents babied me. But, I also know where they were coming from. My parents grew up in a neighborhood from hell. My father was abused as a child. I recognize their need to over-protect and over-compensate for me. And yet, I think of myself on many levels, and this is just another. Even if our parents guard us from the world and "protect" us on every level, eventually we are on our own. The pitfalls are quite real and quite painful, and I'll agree it's better to learn to cope early with failure, but if you don't then, you'll get to "now."

And, on my one positive note, I think that it is wonderful children consult their parents. When you visit an Assisted Living place, I wish for those people that their children and relatives would visit them. To some extent, all parents fail the coming generation. But, that is required. We all work to rise above our pasts and our failures for personal success. For some reason, I feel that is what all peoples have done, throughout time.