Posted on 08/26/2016 7:38:18 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
If the shrinks keep lowering the bar everybody will need them.
This is why parents must make their children self reliant at a very early age. Stop coddling them. They need to deal with life, good and bad.
I hate when people say teenagers have a harder time now day’s—complete BS. Teen years are tough regardless, although I didn’t notice it, I had a great time.
But if they worked ‘real jobs’ in the summer they’d know what to expect, don’t you think? It’s a real character-builder.
My dad was drafted into the army at 19 - he looks like a cadet, not a soldier, in the one photograph I have of him that was taken on Easter Island! He then ended up setting the sites on the big guns at 20 or so and came down with a good case of malaria to boot. So it’s hard for me to have much sympathy for my generation or these kids.
Most of them either teach or do research during the summer. Maybe when they were younger they worked in service jobs (fast food, retail, waiting tables, etc) or did internships at companies. However, those are limited experiences. IMHO, it takes about 2 years working as a professional to get the student mindset and habits out of your system.
How old are these people you’re writing about?
They’ve been coddled and protected by Mommy and Daddy their entire lives. Real World is not something they can cope with.
Great post. One infuriating event in my life was my brother’s refusal to allow his son as a teenager to come to the wake of our parents. I was taken to Irish wakes at six years of age! It turned out later, my brother didn’t like going to wakes or funerals and so had to shield his little crumb cruncher.
Everything you said in your post is absolutely true.
Michael Savage says liberalism is a mental disorder.
Clearly a decade in public schools telling kids that:
* the world is going to end in their lifetime unless everyone converts to environmentalism
* all your peers hate you for your demographic group and are oppressing you (paranoia)
* your nation that others risk their lives to come to is a horrible place, training you to see only the bad (depressing)
* everyone who disagrees with you actually hates you (depressing/paranoia)
* you must constantly weed yourself of politically incorrect thoughts and feelings and never contradict someone’s narrative (paranoia/self-centeredness)
* your feelings are the basis of morality, so the most irrational or violent tantruming person is the most correct (undermining emotional control and ability to rationally debate)
* what you want is a right so you should get it, and any effort to mediate the needs of the many with the needs of “me” is because they hate you (breeding narcissism)
Thanks. Forgot to mention getting people pills or therapists every time something negative happened. Growing up in the fifties and sixties, we coped with schoolmate deaths, family deaths, pet deaths, fires, crimes and a whole lot else by gutting it up. It never occurred to us to need professional talkers. We talked to each other, to our parents, to our religious leaders, to God. My philosophy is try to work it out using those resources before resorting to strangers with unknown philosophies and values.
We had Cuban missile crisis fears, polio fears, endless assassinations of political leaders, a hated war, and yes, schoolmate deaths. I remember one by leukemia and another by drowning. No therapists were brought to the schools. The desks were cleared out as we sat there watching silently. We either sucked it up or talked to our parents, as you said. Or, a priest would come in a quietly lead and prayer. And that was very comforting, indeed!
“It’s really stressful sometimes here at school.”
What an idiot. If he thinks college is stressful, he’s in for a rude awakening when he has a job, family and a mortgage.
Moron.
It’s really stressful sometimes here at school.
I suppose it depends on your perspective. Facing a banzai charge in a jungle when you're sick of dysentery and have eight rounds in your magazine and a bayonet on the end of your M1, that's stressful. Two term papers due in the morning, uh...no.
Sometimes I think the folks that fought in the Pacific look at the guys who fought in the European theater, and thought, “What a bunch of wusses”, LOL!
Let’s face it, folks in the Pacific Theater had a lot more to deal with than just the Enemy.
You mean the faculty? It’s a wide range of ages (from early 30s to mid 70s). But the ones in their 50s seem to be the worst offenders.
No, I meant the students - your students. Never mind, really.
Liberalism/communism causes mental illness and makes people incapable of living their lives in a normal way? Why I never.. /s
Early to mid 20s.
A Hellary voter.
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