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Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem
I was listening to the radio this afternoon and heard about this story. Thought it was interesting.
Basically talks about young people's increasing inability to cope with every day hardships.
"Recent examples mentioned included a student who felt traumatized because her roommate had called her a “bi--h” 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."
Seems like young people are now unable to be problem solvers...
"Students are increasingly seeking help for, and apparently having emotional crises over, problems of everyday life."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...oblem-colleges
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09-30-2015, 02:17 PM
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Kids are pussies these days and I blame the human rights and civil rights activists. Not necessarily the parents but all of these rights groups and their constant protesting and dumbass claims of everything being offensive. Couple that with the fact that parents won't//can't discipline their kids for fear of the kid not liking them or having CPS called on them and arrested by some idiot human rights dummy and you get kids who need to be counciled over seeing a freaking mouse.
This country has bred these kids to be weak and spineless by constant coddling and cowering to the cries of a few whining bleeding hearts.
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I was listening to the radio this afternoon and heard about this story. Thought it was interesting.
Basically talks about young people's increasing inability to cope with every day hardships.
"Recent examples mentioned included a student who felt traumatized because her roommate had called her a “bi--h” 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."
Seems like young people are now unable to be problem solvers...
"Students are increasingly seeking help for, and apparently having emotional crises over, problems of everyday life."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...oblem-colleges
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Probably shouldn't jump in here, but this is why people well into their twenties can still be on parent's insurance. I swear back in the day they cut you off at 19 or so and now it's like 26.
People are living at their parents and living off their parents later in life than ever I guess.
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Kids are pussies these days and I blame the human rights and civil rights activists. Not necessarily the parents but all of these rights groups and their constant protesting and dumbass claims of everything being offensive. Couple that with the fact that parents won't//can't discipline their kids for fear of the kid not liking them or having CPS called on them and arrested by some idiot human rights dummy and you get kids who need to be counciled over seeing a freaking mouse.
This country has bred these kids to be weak and spineless by constant coddling and cowering to the cries of a few whining bleeding hearts.
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The parents are equally to blame. I live pretty close to the Elementary School I attended. In the 70's, I walked to and from school every day, from Kindergarten on.
These days, I don't see any kids walking. Instead, parents are parked around the school, dropping off and picking up their coddled kids every day.
If these kids are on sports teams, they get "participation trophies". Perish the thought that their little angels should be subjected to the harsh reality of winning or losing.
They'll eventually learn what it means to lose, when they can't compete as adults.
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09-30-2015, 03:04 PM
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My jaw just about hit the floor the other day when I heard a young woman, who I will keep anonymous, say (after completing a $120k plus 4 year college degree paid for by her WW2 D-Day vet grandfather...) "I am not going to look for a full time job... you only live once and I want to spend my time with the man I love (in reference to her boyfriend and I suppose soon to be fiance)..."
That is the mentality many are adopting these days...
Unbelievable.
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Speaking strictly to insurance, I know what I made working in college at 18 years old and it would have consumed a huge portion of my income to try and pay for all of the insurances you have to carry these days. By the time I got done paying for rent, utilities, fuel, food, etc there's no way I could have covered health insurance, car insurance, and renters insurance without taking out student loans which then puts me in debt and the viscous circle of life goes on.
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The parents are equally to blame. I live pretty close to the Elementary School I attended. In the 70's, I walked to and from school every day, from Kindergarten on.
These days, I don't see any kids walking. Instead, parents are parked around the school, dropping off and picking up their coddled kids every day.
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Funny thing about this, you can tell the difference between a newly built school and one that's been around a long time. Older school don't have the parking/drive/pickup lanes large enough to accommodate the hundreds of parents who show up in their cars twice every day, meaning that they end up out in the road in every direction for blocks after block making local traffic a complete nightmare. Newer ones (sometimes) are built to better accommodate this. Sometimes.
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The parents are equally to blame. I live pretty close to the Elementary School I attended. In the 70's, I walked to and from school every day, from Kindergarten on.
These days, I don't see any kids walking. Instead, parents are parked around the school, dropping off and picking up their coddled kids every day.
If these kids are on sports teams, they get "participation trophies". Perish the thought that their little angels should be subjected to the harsh reality of winning or losing.
They'll eventually learn what it means to lose, when they can't compete as adults.
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No argument and I'm usually the first to blame the parents for kids these days but in this case I'm blaming the bleeding hearts whining over what shirt I wear in public and how it offended them or how they moved next door to a bbq joint and now want the restaurant to shut down because the smoke bothers them. Those are the degenerate low lives that I'm blaming here. People need to develop LESS feelings. Not more. Feelings and emotions have no place outside of the home. Life and business is cut throat, rude, angry, hostile, and downright ruthless and if you can't cope with that then you should probably become a hermit or crawl off in a hole somewhere and quit bothering the rest of productive society.
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I wish we could hear what George Carlin would have to say about this
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Is that a relative of Caitlin Jenner? Or did you mean George Carlin?
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HUH, I said George carlin
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I see what you did there......
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i'm a high school lacrosse coach and this is ever evident even at the top level of varsity sports. "helicopter parents" that want to make sure everyone gets fair treatment and are always angry that their kid isn't getting the same opportunities are everywhere. its tough to tell parents that no your kid isn't special and doesnt deserve what you say they deserve. its a product of parenting more than anything IMO
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Every child should be given a knife at the age of six and sent into the woods.
If they come back, they get bathed in the blood of their kill before the great feast where they receive their first sword.
Those who return clothed in the skins of bears and elk will be the future leaders.
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i'm a high school lacrosse coach and this is ever evident even at the top level of varsity sports. "helicopter parents" that want to make sure everyone gets fair treatment and are always angry that their kid isn't getting the same opportunities are everywhere. its tough to tell parents that no your kid isn't special and doesnt deserve what you say they deserve. its a product of parenting more than anything IMO
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we just had a parent tell off the coach and pull her kid from the team on my sons 13 yr old basketball team because she felt they weren't playing him enough. he hardly showed up for practice, and didn't give 100 percent, and the whole team had been told you will be benched if you are not performing or following the plays etc.
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