Posted on 10/01/2015 2:18:07 PM PDT by dynachrome
A year ago I received an invitation from the head of Counseling Services at a major university to join faculty and administrators for discussions about how to deal with the decline in resilience among students. At the first meeting, we learned that emergency calls to Counseling had more than doubled over the past five years. Students are increasingly seeking help for, and apparently having emotional crises over, problems of everyday life. Recent examples mentioned included a student who felt traumatized because her roommate had called her a “bitch” and two students who had sought counseling because they had seen a mouse in their off-campus apartment. The latter two also called the police, who kindly arrived and set a mousetrap for them.
Faculty at the meetings noted that students’ emotional fragility has become a serious problem when in comes to grading. Some said they had grown afraid to give low grades for poor performance, because of the subsequent emotional crises they would have to deal with in their offices.
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Yup, and the “Parent Informational Meetings” are just to clam down freaked out , worry wart parents.
I have a young man who works for me who became too flustered to do his job for an entire afternoon and ended up making multiple critical errors, due to an earwig biting him on the head. No joke. The really sad thing is that he honestly believed that should be perfectly valid and acceptable explanation for his poor performance.
We had “Elmo” the house cat for the mice...
There are many root causes in our society. Here is one:
A large number of our k-12 students are on behavioral drugs (adderall, eveko, ritalin...over 50 of them). While on these drugs they have no incentive or ability to develop.
Do foia (freedom of information) on your state medicaid agency to just see one part of this problem. You taxpayers are paying thousands per student to drug up these kids so they can’t learn how to cope.
Geez you hear this stuff and you wonder how we won World War II. You winder if we could win World War II today with this wussified younger generation.
Visiting with a friend about findi g people mature enough to lead projects. They are scarce. The age of maturity is getting older all the time. 30 year olds are not what they used to be. More like 40 might be the new 30 or dont trust anyone under 50.
Watch the movie “Gran Torino.” Watch how Clint tells the little asian how guys talk to each other.
Yeah those were the days. All I had to deal with was the upcoming draft, no not for a pro sport, and how to pay for college as it was not a break glass pull out loan environment. Funny, all my buddies seem to get through it unaffected and are all at ease in society now.
>>They have always had helicopter parents on hand to deal with all these inconvenient details of living real-time.<<
The most amazing and appalling things I have read in many articles is the new snowflakes’ PARENTS intervening in JOB interviews.
After I was 17, I took care of business on my own (I kept my mom posted, of course, but it never occurred to any of us she would get involved).
I fear for the USA when the chelseas will take a $300K salary and then call mommy to intervene.
“...teaching them basics of self-care that they should have been taught at home years before.”
In so many cases, there is nobody home raising the kids, or the parents are clueless, are not paying attention, or smoking dope, or partying, or just don’t care. Talk to some school counselors.
I agree, but its so much bigger than just the parents, its a sick, degraded culture that kids are marinated in, and it's virtually impossible to escape without becoming Amish.
My sis told me today that there is now a MANDATORY one day juror orientation day at the courthouse to tell people how to dress and behave in the courtroom and as a juror.
Yeah buddy, I sure do want to be tried by a juror of my peers.
You have a point.
There was a post earlier this Summer from the Harvard Crimson about a Harvard student, a lesbian of color, that complained that the school “safe house” had too many people that were not 110% pc, white-guilt burdened, wussified eunuchs, and talked about things that made her uncomfortable.
I hope they teach them how not to get bored to death. On my last voir dire/jury selection I was prospective juror #2, sitting through 3 days of questioning. Various jurors got bounced early, but juror #1 and I finally got a peremptory challenge from the defense after we both answered "yes" to the question, "Have you ever fired anybody?" Obviously, they wanted wusses who could easily be swayed and not used to making hard decisions.
We seem to be raising a generation of them.
From the greatest generation.
To this.
Ain’t liberalism wunnerful?
Pajama boy should be a target at a skeet shoot.
The colleges taught them to do it.
When my son was in college (just a few years ago), His mother and I visited him at his frat house. In the corner of the main room was a cheap Daisy BB gun. I thought maybe they had an inside shooting gallery, so I asked my son where the gallery was and I pointed to the BB gun. My son grinned and said it was for mouse hunting in the frat house. My wife asked why they didn't just use a mouse trap. Without missing a beat, my son said, "Because we are not a soroity."
Even my wife laughed at that answer.
Did they even have a councelor when we were in college?
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