Posted on 04/09/2023 6:16:10 PM PDT by beejaa
Generation Z, born from 1995 onwards, has been raised with “moral dependency,” argues social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. As the first generation to get social media at age 13, Gen Z has been denied the independence that previous generations enjoyed — the “free play,” the time spent off devices.
In general, Haidt argues that this generation is more fragile and sensitive to conflict, insults, and exclusion, making them less adept at solving problems on their own. And Haidt believes that overprotection has made them weaker and easily discouraged.
That’s why teaching critical thinking and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) may be the key to helping young people question their initial interpretations and improve their mental health. Haidt also discusses identity politics, differentiating between “common humanity” and “common enemy” approaches. Fostering a sense of commonality rather than division, Haidt argues, is essential for creating inclusive and diverse environments in educational institutions and society at large.
0:00 Kids born after 1995 1:25 Locking kids up 2:00 The end of independence 3:05 What are triggers? 3:30 Psychological habits to break 4:04 Habit #1: Motivated reasoning 5:14 Cognitive behavioral therapy 6:28 Habit #2: Tribalism 7:29 Good and bad identity politics
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I forgot to add - the Gen Z comments below the video are also interesting.
You can thank the drug addled hippies for this shtick!
Start with Dr. Spock.
I am absolutely convinced the downfall of the US is primarily his fault. And those who rushed to listen to this pompous educrat.
They didn’t have their mother saying “be back when the lights come on”.
Gen Z as a group are despicable. (Yes I’m sure individually many are fine)
Only today I saw a news report on fox and it said nearly 80% of Gen Z voted Democratic in the mid-terms. Honestly that’s probably the main reason for the “red ripple”.
I seriously doubt they were even spanked.
We all did stupid things as kids but we also had that one wet blanket friend who told us that eating one hundred bugs for a quarter was not a good idea. And when we were stupid and did it any way about ten people maximum would get on our case about it for maybe a week and it would be over. Now days thousands of people show up to criticize you for years.
That does not result in a healthy mind set.
I guess we failed ...my 90s era kids and a lot of their friends make fun of such kids. We raised them like we were raised, including the part about “Go outside!”
You nailed it. I was lucky. My parents hated that bastard “doctor” and knew he was leading the idiot parents astray. My parents were convinced that a leather strap across the butt was the answer. There wasn’t no attention deficit disorder in my family because my parents cared enough about us to always make sure they had our attention at all times even if they weren’t around. They were right in my humble opinion. Their four kids never once embarrassed them.
you are absolutely correct ... and almost every one of his followers were gullible females ...
Jeannine Robertson - comedienne - about 5 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLmQEOZOqTU
Give it a chance; Story of a brain-dead counter person.
Funny.
And layered on top of everything, we see record levels of depression esp. in girls growing up. And we see record numbers of kids dealing with “gender dysphoria” or “trans gender” issues, which was unheard of years ago.
That’s not to say that gender dysphoria didn’t exist years ago, but to say, that we didn’t encourage it, or enable it, or take it to the level of hormone shots and surgery, the way we do now.
A guy from my church coaches boy’s basketball (what’s a boy?)
Anyhow one year he did as normal with a new team, he put 5 vs. 5 on the court and threw the ball to one team. He said to play and show him what they know.
The kids froze and told them he needed to tell them what to do.
That one incident says volumes. Without time to figure out how to play a game and cooperate with your peers you lose the ability to function independently.
Of course this is not all kids; but yes the structuring is too much. You can’t be creative and learn from the world if you are always just doing what you are told.
No man in the house.
Read later.
If there was a man, he probably wasn’t much of one.
Over socialized. Under educated. Now who first brought this up to the world?? Trying to remember...
Before same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide in by the Supreme Court in 2015, transgender issues were never mentioned in the news. The very next day after the Obergerfell decision, all of a sudden, we were hearing about transgender issues.
I don’t think transgenderism arose spontaneously as an issue. I think the gay rights movement was ready to roll it out right after the Oberfell decision. The press could marginalize it, but they won’t.
Okay, I’m not proud of my generation. OTOH, the birth control pill (not invented by Boomers) became available in 1960. Without the birth control pill, I’m not sure we would have had drug addled hippies.
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