Finally! Someone finally has the guts to say it!
Boy is this right on.......We have a nation ( exception being our young people serving in Iraq) of whining babies, that want every little (or big) bump in the road smoothed out by someone else. The very thought of having to sacrifice or work a problem out on their own is emotionally crippling.
That's a whole lot of words to say "Kids are whiny these days." :D
Great read....makes me want to put a copy of this on the windshield of every car with a 'baby-on-board' sticker.
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It gets worse than all this, actually.
Not only are kids and young adults getting wimpier, but those who had lives less sugar-coated now have the problem. We are called "insensitive", "mean-spirited", "racist", "misogynistic", "everything-o-phobic", etc etc.
In another time better appellations would have been strength, fortitude, constitution, drive to succeed and unwillingness to quit; today those traits mean we're sick in some way.
If this article truly represents a majority of American youth, can we ever have a victory won "on the playing fields of Eton"?
BTTT
Great article.
I just read the whole thing, and a great read it was. Thanks for posting. Big bump!
"We learn through experience and we learn through bad experiences.
I must be one of the smartest people in the world.
The guy's on the money.
Very true and quite annoying. We have friends and family who obsess over having everything perfect for their kids - and their kids rule their houses. My husband and I subscribe to the school of thought "if you center your life around your kids, you'll turn them into self-centered adults". We've heaped love, affection, and support on our three - but when they fall, we let them. Had to let our oldest spend a night in jail versus going and immediately bailing him out - so he would learn his lesson and hopefully not ever want to wind up there again. They've never worn those stupid-looking helmets when riding their bikes and I've never bought a drop of that hand-sanitizer stuff (being exposed to germs gives kids a stronger immunity to illnesses I believe).
I am so proud of my three kids - they are extremely smart, stand-up, self-sufficient kind of people - and are definitely not whiners. I love them enough to want them to be as prepared as possible for the REAL WORLD. It's tough enough out there, and as parents, it's our responsibility to prepare them for the world - not protect them from it!
ping
Amen. When my youngest kids and I moved to my parents home to take care of my mom, I thought about all the pick up ball games during summer and fall on my street. Middle of a summer day, no kids. It hit me when it was the middle of the day in July, and all I could hear were birds chirping.
This article is well worth the read, and definitely right on target. I could go on about the friend of my oldest daughters and SAT tests.
Great article:)
Another thing is they are wimps physically too. Run to the doctor for every little ole bump or bruise. A boy that works for us parents ran him to the emergency room after he hit his thumb with a hammer.....Yeah, there was some blood, yeah it hurt, but the emergency room...my kids would have got peroxicde and a bandaid:)
Becky
Amazing. This article is a viable explanation for all of the "Post Election Stress Trauma" sufferers here in Palm Beach County.
They are a classic example of spoiled, protected, self-indulged, underdeveloped, perpetual children with zero coping skills.
I hope they all go broke and their "therapists" all get rich. Serves 'em right.
VERY interesting! Thanks for posting.
I have bookmarked to read in detail later. I wonder if the article also mentions that so many seem to want to claim a right not to be offended by anything, anytime, anyplace, ever. Get over it!
Kids who are raised like this will be CRUSHED in real life by kids who aren't.
insurance company propaganda aimed at limiting liability: it's the Nanny State.