"The Kids Are Too Soft"
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"The Kids Are Too Soft"
“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
As a dutiful member of a fairly soft generation of hyperconnected internet guinea pigs, I've had a fairly up and down history with the assorted feelings of malaise.
Raising children has come to look more and more like a business endeavor and less and less like an endeavor of the heart. We are overly concerned with “the bottom line,” with how our children “do” rather than with who our children “are.” We pour time, attention, and money into insuring their performance, consistently making it to their soccer game... See more
Madeline Levine • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
Parents are ditching “gentle parenting” for something called “FAFO.” Short for “F*** Around and Find Out,” this no-nonsense approach has natural repercussions that do the talking: forget your raincoat, you walk home soaked. Don’t like dinner — then wait until breakfast.
The shift comes as critics blame gentle parenting for Gen Z’s workplace
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