A Nation of Wimps. Hara Estroff Marano.
by Marano, Hara Estroff; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 26Family. Publisher: Psychology Today, 2004ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Anxiety | Child mental health | College students -- Alcohol use | College students -- Mental health | Competition (Psychology) | Control (Psychology) | Experience in children | Life skills | Parent and child | Parental overprotection | Play | Students -- Mental health | Teenagers -- Mental health | WorryDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Parents are going to ludicrous lengths to take the lumps and bumps out of life for their children. However well-intentioned, parental hyperconcern and microscrutiny have the net effect of making kids more fragile. That may be why the young are breaking down in record numbers." (PSYCHOLOGY TODAY) This article discusses the over-protectiveness of today's parents and notes that "with few challenges all their own, kids are unable to forge their creative adaptations to the normal vicissitudes of life. That not only makes them risk-averse, it makes them psychologically fragile, riddled with anxiety. In the process they're robbed of identity, meaning and a sense of accomplishment, to say nothing of a shot at real happiness. Forget, too, about perseverance, not simply a moral virtue but a necessary life skill. These turn out to be the spreading psychic fault lines of 21st-century youth. Whether we want to or not, we're on our way to creating a nation of wimps."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: A Nation of Wimps, Nov./Dec. 2004; pp. 58+.
"Parents are going to ludicrous lengths to take the lumps and bumps out of life for their children. However well-intentioned, parental hyperconcern and microscrutiny have the net effect of making kids more fragile. That may be why the young are breaking down in record numbers." (PSYCHOLOGY TODAY) This article discusses the over-protectiveness of today's parents and notes that "with few challenges all their own, kids are unable to forge their creative adaptations to the normal vicissitudes of life. That not only makes them risk-averse, it makes them psychologically fragile, riddled with anxiety. In the process they're robbed of identity, meaning and a sense of accomplishment, to say nothing of a shot at real happiness. Forget, too, about perseverance, not simply a moral virtue but a necessary life skill. These turn out to be the spreading psychic fault lines of 21st-century youth. Whether we want to or not, we're on our way to creating a nation of wimps."
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