Some question move to protect children from disappointment, failure

[MisterJackson]

Meh....my son has a summer birthday so he just calls up the ones he wants to come and the others are none the wiser!

 

[DrPizza]

Although, I do agree in the case of sports where children are just learning; make winning/losing the key, and you turn off kids from sports (and exercise) when they're very young, simply because coaches tend to only play their best players when W/L matters. Too young and just learning/developing at that point. W/L simply eliminates many players who would otherwise have turned out to be exceptional players given a couple more years of growth. (Either that, or make it a rule that all players have to have equal playing time at that age.) By 10 or 11 years of age, (but not before) it's fairly clear who is going to be athletic and who isn't.

 

[Vegitto]

Heh, the pussyfication of America continues. I was never invited to a party, and look at me now! All alone..

 

[JackBurton]

What they NEED to tell those kids is, to quit crying and man up!

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: Vegitto
Heh, the pussyfication of America continues. I was never invited to a party, and look at me now! All alone..

LOL.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
What they NEED to tell those kids is, to quit crying and man up!

Listen you sissy-boy, when I was your age, I had to work down the mines for 12 hours a day, so quit your crying and take out the trash like I told you two days ago!

 

[FreedomGUNDAM]

in my daughters school, u can't bring birthday party invitations into the classroom unless everyone is invited.

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: JackBurton
What they NEED to tell those kids is, to quit crying and man up!

Listen you sissy-boy, when I was your age, I had to work down the mines for 12 hours a day, so quit your crying and take out the trash like I told you two days ago!

That would work too.

 

[Brainonska511]

This idea of hand-holding people (my train of thought brought to us by the helocopter parents post) is ridiculous. A few weeks ago, my dad was relating to me an article he read in the WSJ which talked about prospective employees would be bringing their parents to a job interview. He said if he ever saw anyone bring their parent(s) to a job interview for his company, he would just tell them goodbye.

This country is nuts when it comes to "protecting" children. You're just setting them up for problems later in life. They'll encounter problems and they just won't be able to deal with them because they'll lack the coping skills that should have been learned while they were young.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: QED
I remember reading an article a year or two ago about how this coddling of our youths has resulted in a generation of kids who have a sense of entitlement.

I've seen it firsthand... I've mentioned before one of my good friends teaches the freshman English course at his university-- and he's noticed a lot of kids who will come in to his office demanding to know why he gave their very mediocre term paper a "C" when all throughout junior high and high school teachers told them they were the next Ernest Hemingway.

Pffft... You think that's bad, try being an employer of entry level kids with their first jobs.