No, NOT "for the better for a child", because even in modern times, life can sometimes be unpleasant to brutal and nasty. Children need to learn how to cope with life as it is, not in a cleaned up version of it! Otherwise, we wind up with a bunch of STUPID SNOWFLAKES, who demand a "trophy" for just showing up, get "triggered" by a word, need "safe spaces" in which , AS YOUNG ADULTS, they finger-paint and/or play with PLAYDOUGH.