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The Fragile Generation - Making kids too safe to succeed
Posted on 2/19/18 at 11:39 am
Posted on 2/19/18 at 11:39 am
Originally Issued Dec 2017 but worth re-sharing
Plenty of gems throughout this (warning, long) article...but sums up what is going on today quite well.
Plenty of gems throughout this (warning, long) article...but sums up what is going on today quite well.
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A 2010 study found "kidnapping" to be the top parental fear, despite the fact that merely being a passenger in a car is far more dangerous. Nine kids were kidnapped and murdered by strangers in 2011, while 1,140 died in vehicles that same year.
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Beginning in the 1980s, American childhood changed. For a variety of reasons—including shifts in parenting norms, new academic expectations, increased regulation, technological advances, and especially a heightened fear of abduction (missing kids on milk cartons made it feel as if this exceedingly rare crime was rampant)—children largely lost the experience of having large swaths of unsupervised time to play, explore, and resolve conflicts on their own. This has left them more fragile, more easily offended, and more reliant on others. They have been taught to seek authority figures to solve their problems and shield them from discomfort, a condition sociologists call "moral dependency."
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When today's 8-year-olds become the 18-year-olds starting college, will they still view free speech as worthy of protecting? As Daniel Shuchman, chairman of the free speech-promoting Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), puts it, "How likely are they to consider the First Amendment essential if they start learning in fifth grade that you're forbidden to say—or even think—certain things, especially at school?"
Parents, teachers, and professors are talking about the growing fragility they see. It's hard to avoid the conclusion that the overprotection of children and the hypersensitivity of college students could be two sides of the same coin. By trying so hard to protect our kids, we're making them too safe to succeed.
This post was edited on 2/19/18 at 11:44 am
Posted on 2/19/18 at 11:41 am to Golfer
Boomers (and now genX) have ruined our society.
Posted on 2/19/18 at 11:44 am to JohnnyKilroy
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Boomers (and now genX) have ruined our society.
Im sure y'all will improve it...
Posted on 2/19/18 at 11:47 am to Golfer
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Today many kids are raised like veal. Only 13 percent of them even walk to school. Many who take the bus wait at the stop with parents beside them like bodyguards. For a while, Rhode Island was considering a bill that would prohibit children from getting off the bus in the afternoon if there wasn't an adult waiting to walk them home. This would have applied until seventh grade.
What the frick
Posted on 2/19/18 at 11:47 am to Golfer
I hope the pendulum swings in the other direction with kids growing up today. I know I plan on raising my kids to better prepare them for real life. It's going to be an uphill battle of course, but I hope I can succeed.
Posted on 2/19/18 at 11:48 am to Wally Sparks
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What the frick
The article is littered with examples of this from kids chopping wood, to Halloween regulations, to library age requirements, to grass not being safe for a playground
Posted on 2/19/18 at 11:52 am to Wally Sparks
quote:Why does the writer act like this is a new trend? If anything, the whole parents waiting at the bus stop or kids waiting at the end of the driveway started after the disappearance of Etan Patz.
Today many kids are raised like veal. Only 13 percent of them even walk to school. Many who take the bus wait at the stop with parents beside them like bodyguards. For a while, Rhode Island was considering a bill that would prohibit children from getting off the bus in the afternoon if there wasn't an adult waiting to walk them home. This would have applied until seventh grade.
Posted on 2/19/18 at 11:54 am to JBeam
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Why does the writer act like this is a new trend? If anything, the whole parents waiting at the bus stop or kids waiting at the end of the driveway started after the disappearance of Etan Patz.
He doesn't? There's plenty of references to the 1980's and this 30-year trend of over regulating child safety.
And to his point, one kid missing from a bus stop doesn’t mean we need radical changes in the process.
This post was edited on 2/19/18 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 2/19/18 at 11:55 am to Golfer
I remember as a kid telling my mom hey I'm going out
8 hours later return him. Tell her I played in the ditch and went fishing, went to the arcade, and got a burger from Buds Broiler. All on my bike with no phone and no care in the world from either of us
Today there would be an APB from most parents in that situation
8 hours later return him. Tell her I played in the ditch and went fishing, went to the arcade, and got a burger from Buds Broiler. All on my bike with no phone and no care in the world from either of us
Today there would be an APB from most parents in that situation
Posted on 2/19/18 at 12:00 pm to Golfer
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Halloween regulations
I can remember the year my school changed a school sanctioned Halloween party that had occurred for decades into a "Fall Carnival" because the costumes & haunted house were too scary for our fragile minds to handle anymore. At 13 I already had enough self awareness to recognize how fricking retarded that was.
Posted on 2/19/18 at 12:14 pm to StealthCalais11
I remember when we didn't have any snow to walk 7 miles to school in. Still pisses me off to this day.
Posted on 2/19/18 at 12:24 pm to Golfer
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There's plenty of references to the 1980's and this 30-year trend of over regulating child safety.
Those who were children and teenagers in the 80's were latchkey kids, brought on by social and economic conditions of the 70's and very early 80's. Single parent households rose dramatically as did the number of households where both parents worked. They were the first largely unsupervised generation. They were loners, and the core of Generation X. Their parents were typically older Boomers or war babies.
Backlash against that "neglect" has led to progressivlely worse overparenting by the younger Boomers, Gen X themselves, and now Millennials. It has progressed from excessive concern for physical safety to an extreme sensitivity to protecting feelings. The youngest members of Gen Z might as well spend their childhoods encased in bubble wrap and fairy dust.
Posted on 2/19/18 at 12:49 pm to Golfer
quote:But it wasn't just one kid. You had a string of "latchkey kids" go missing during the 70's-90's. Not to mention, a few phone in threats about targeting buses of kids.
And to his point, one kid missing from a bus stop doesn’t mean we need radical changes in the process.
So parents staying at the bus stop or kids not riding the bus at all isn't that mindblowing of a trend.
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