Posted on 09/28/2015 1:14:35 PM PDT by rightistight
Writing on the increasing fragility of the American college student, Dr. Peter Gray, a research professor at Boston College, detailed in Psychology Today about different cases where young adults showed an astounding inability to cope with minor hurdles in their lives. His article is titled "Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges" and was published last week.
One incident that Dr. Gray describes is when two students saw a mouse in their off-campus apartment.
According to Dr. Gray, the students saw the mouse, panicked, and called the police. The police responded to the call, then set up a mouse trap for the startled students.
The students then sought counselling for what they had been through.
Dr. Gray explains that he has received emails from other college professors and Counselling Services which claim, "Less resilient and needy students have shaped the landscape for faculty in that they are expected to do more handholding, lower their academic standards, and not challenge students too much."
Other statements from faculty include, "Faculty, particularly young faculty members, feel pressured to accede to student wishes lest they get low teacher ratings from their students. Students email about trivial things and expect prompt replies."
As well as, "There is a sense of helplessness among the faculty. Many faculty members expressed their frustration with the current situation. There were few ideas about what we could do as an institution to address the issue."
Dr. Gray concludes, "If we want to prepare our kids for college—or for anything else in life!—we have to counter all these social forces. We have to give our children the freedom, which children have always enjoyed in the past, to get away from adults so they can practice being adults, that is, practice taking responsibility for themselves."
With PowerPoint, silly!
Buy a pellet rifle ... not an Airsoft, not a Daisy, but one from PyramydAir — www.pyramydair.com/a/Air_guns/Air_rifles/Spring_piston/Pellet_rifles/375 — and use that. We’re out in the country on an acre and a half, but because of the way the porch and patio is laid out, the only angle that I can use to fire on raccoons and opossums is in the direction of the only house that is nearby. The pellet rifle that I purchased is just the ticket; the lattice and creepers on the patio and the trees surrounding my acreage will bat down any pellets that miss, and the ones that don’t miss kill with one shot.
I was hoping someone was going to post a “mickey” picture LOL
Hints from Helouis, (SP?), years ago, said peanut butter, and my experience says it works.
One harsh winter out here in the sticks; I set a Hav-a-Hart mouse trap in the pantry. I sat down close by. The trap sprang. - I quickly went and got the “trap”. A little mouse with HUGE eyes was caught, trembling like a little leaf. I took her outside to the woodpile and released her. - I put out a variety of food for storage & wool & cotton for her to fix herself a nest in the woodpile. - Did that every day for a while. Every day, my offerings were taken & put in storage I presume. - I named her Mrs. Tittlemouse. Haven’t had any more mice in the house. - Taught her a lesson!
The mice stole the cheese. When the cheese was tied on with thread, they nibbled the cheese off until it fell free from the thread binding it onto the trap. Moved on to using peanut butter, but they simply licked it off of the trap without springing it. Frustrated, I put cheese bits and chunky peanut butter into a scrap piece of nylon hosiery, tied it closed with thread, and tied the bag onto the trap. Twenty minutes later...SNAP! Reset the trap...and SNAP again. Reset the trap....
I'm reminded of this Ronald Reagan Story:From the memoirs of Reagan's wife, Nancy, the exchange took place in 1967, shortly after Reagan had been elected governor of California and had to deal with increasingly disruptiveanti-war protests and student unrest on the campuses of state universities. As Dinesh D'Souza explained the context in his 1999 Reagan biography:The president of the University of California system, Clark Kerr, symbolized the problem. By refusing to discipline student activists who were taking over buildings and obstructing classes, Kerr, in Reagan's view, had only encouraged further disruptions. The regents of the university system were displeased with Kerr, but he was lionized by the media, and they were afraid to take him on. As governor, Reagan was anex officio member of the board of regents and at his first meeting onJanuary 20, 1967, told them that if they wanted to fire Kerr, they had his full support; he would handle the political fallout. Kerr was ejected, to his own evident disbelief.
Then Reagan turned to the activists. Initially he tried to engage them in dialogue, but he soon found that they only wanted to trade barbs and insults. Reagan's quick-wittedness is apparent from records of some of those exchanges. At one campus meeting, a student told Reagan that it was impossible for people of Reagan's generation to understand young people. "You grew up in a different world," he said. "Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy, computers."
Without missing a beat, Reagan replied, "You're right. It's true that we didn't have those things when we were young. We invented them."
Some breeds of chickens, like Buckeyes, are good mousers. And they fertilize the garden at the same time.
I can see that.
I’ve got an English Shepherd that does a number on them too.
And possums.
And rabbits.
And squirrels.
And chipmunks...
I remembered seeing an article about those guys, imagine that in your house. Break out the .22 rifle with CB caps?
How many kids can change a tire or check their oil?
How did we ever settle the west?
LOL Yeah, they would have shot it.
THE ONLY REASON THE HUMAN RACE HAS SURVIVED IS DUE TO MASS PROCREATION BECAUSE THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY STUPID PEOPLE OUT THERE. IT’S JUST SHEER NUMBERS.
The WWII Generation was the last great one.
Most likely. In a few generations everything will right itself. I just hope the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will survive, with someone able to read them.
Lol, I imagine a lot of people had to push start a car for months. I was in FL in the 80’s when I had to do it. Finding a high spot in a parking lot was very hard!
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