Adapt or die.
Using this same logic, it might be said that, in facing their own challenges, wild animals are a lot smarter than, for example, today's college graduates. Smarter in their own way of course.
When parents put barriers between their children and life's challenges, they make them less adaptable--they prevent their children from learning from learning "adaptability."
The other day I heard someone say that most depression and sadness is due to boredom. A challenging life is a lot of things but it certainly isn't boring.
Real fur coats helped along with awesome fireplaces.
I once read a commentary about human resilience and boredom. One of the points the author made is that mental illness was pretty much non-existent in London when it was being bombed by the Germans in WW2.
Reading about the difficulties of keeping stone and glass buildings warm reminded me of an event some years ago. There was an upholstery shop in a converted gas station. The structure was cinderblock, with large panes of glass across the front. I was walking around, and a drop of water hit me on the head. The owner looked up and said “The insulation is leaking out.” ???? I asked what he meant, and he explained that the building had been designed to hold three feet of water on top, to keep in heat. I guess someone sold him a line of BS about the water accumulated up there being something other than plugged up scuppers. No telling how many tons of unnecessary weight were up there.