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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[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

God, you know, sometimes, I wish some of those spoiled brats would stop whining. On the other hand, some of the teachers should stop whining.

I'm of two minds in the second article, because I know I've argued a grade once or twice. I even remember when, in 10th grade, my bitch of an English teacher gave me an F on a paper, in which I did the required work. I was exceedingly pissed off, because I later saw this shitty piece of work my sister wrote that got a 100! Her grammar was terrible and EVERYTHING. I WAS SO PISSED. And the teacher didn't change my grade after I pestered her about three times. And you know, I wasn't freaking out about an AfreakingMinus, I was complaining about an F that was UNDESERVED. *growls*

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

Oh, and incidentally, this teacher was a biiiit like Severus Snape mixed with Delores Umbridge. If you can imagine THAT, that is what I was working with. *beats head*