seriously ?!
Posted on 12/28/2017 1:10:35 PM PST by Academiadotorg
Colleges may not celebrate Christmas, but they have no shortage of snowflakes. "A few years ago, Boston College psychology professor emeritus Peter Gray was invited by the head of counseling services at a major university to a conference on 'the decline in resilience among students,'" Lenore Skenazy and Jonathan Haidt write in the latest issue of Reason magazine. "The organizer said that emergency counseling calls had doubled in the last five years."
"What's more, callers were seeking help coping with everyday problems, such as arguments with a roommate. Two students had dialed in because they'd found a mouse in their apartment. They also called the police, who came and set a mousetrap. And that's not to mention the sensitivity around grades. To some students, a B is the end of the world. (To some parents, too.)"
Haidt teaches at NYU's Stern School of Business. Skenazy is the president of the Let Grow Foundation. They trace the lack of resilience to the cradle, as it were, and trace it right through the "Everyone gets a prize" phenomenon and beyond. Unfortunately, they find, sheltering children from actual competition and any type of adversity has ramifications that go well beyond women's studies courses.
"A Johns Hopkins study this summer found that the typical 19-year-old is as sedentary as a 65-year-old," they write. "The Army is worried that its recruits don't know how to skip or do somersaults."
That’s why my nephews and nieces climb the ladder so quickly where they work.
As I’m sure most daughters and sons of FReepers do.
Work ethic. optimistic personality and good looks from my side of the family :)
It just hasn’t got warm enough to melt them all yet
seriously ?!
Holy crap.
My son who is working his way thru college with several jobs once said that success at work is just a matter of showing up on time and passing a pee test. If you actually can work you’re a superstar.
It could be a parent, a grand parent, an aunt or an uncle. So long as there is someone in the child’s life where he can go for reliable, predictable comforting and sense of safety, then the child will grow up able to deal with anything.
During the Carter Admin, the caliber of the recruits was so poor that some of the manuals had to done in the form of comic books.
That line caught my eye also.
Yes, but could they skip?
It’s the truth lol!
My nephews and nieces are smart but they are climbing a little too easily and quickly IMHO!
Something is wrong out there!
That’s the future of our country.
Those of us here in our 40s and older would have been CEOs within 10 years :)
Good Grief.
The hump of the bell curves for fitness and common sense have certainly moved left.
lol. Far left. Like Hollywood left :)
“It’s beginning to be a snowflake “Xmas” every where I go
They all seem to cry and shake, I doubt they can even bake,
If only one could find a frappamochalatte to go!
Okay your turn fellow freepers!
That’s as bad as the Liberty car insurance commercial (yes, annoyning) with the teen boys who don’t know how to change a tire. Bet their dads didn’t know either or they’d have known how before leaving the driveway.
When I had trouble with roommates, I or they were smart enough to move.
If you are a superstar your coworkers, they’ll complain about you to the boss.
Right! My son is 25, no college degree, and has been the store manager for three stores at Tractor Supply, one at A C Moore, and is moving on to fix a second one at Moore. Eagle Scout, and resilient as hell!
These snowflakes are merely lunch for him and the rest of the world.
Raise an animal in an antiseptic environment, coddle it with on-demand food, let it be sedentary at will THEN release it into the wild. Prognosis?
Failure to thrive is a very real thing. The USofA may go into the history books as a suicide. Those histories are likely to be written by the Chinese.
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