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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I see what happens to these kids when all this overprotection goes too far (not to say I wasn't overprotected myself, although I probably did most of it *to* myself), and let me tell you, it's not pretty. I've seen 14-year-olds who throw screaming tantrums when they're told they can't feel each other up in public or smack the behinds of adult men who are supposed to be looking out for them, who physically attack people and then go crying to a mommy-figure when even leniently punished for it, or who smile and act perfect and cut themselves up in private to feel like they're real.

I'm telling you, they work every system they're until it screams for mercy.