cool yet disturbing article

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via tochira

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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[nekofreak.livejournal.com]

excelet articles, thank you for sharing ^_^

and oooooh boy my sister is the poster child for phone-umbilicle baby! she's always been babied and it shows! at 30 she still sleeps with her "blanky" and sucks her friggen thumb! x.X and calls anyone who will pick up the phone in mass hysteria anytime anything goes wrong >.< </>