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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. (asklierdumoa 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.
tochiraA 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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Last week in Astronomy I (a 100-level course in my college, one of the four science courses students can choose from as their required science regardless of their major) a 30-odd-year-old woman turned to me in the middle of class and whispered, "There are only nine planets?"
She also seems to have never encountered the formula for converting units of measurement. And, I had to explain that kilometers are larger than meters, and centimeters are smaller.