A Nation of Wimps | Psychology Today - 1 views
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Behold the wholly sanitized childhood, without skinned knees or the occasional C in history. "Kids need to feel badly sometimes," says child psychologist David Elkind, professor at Tufts University. "We learn through experience and we learn through bad experiences. Through failure we learn how to cope."
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Although error and experimentation are the true mothers of success, parents are taking pains to remove failure from the equation.
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With few challenges all their own, kids are unable to forge their creative adaptations to the normal vicissitudes of life
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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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The mental state of students is now so precarious for so many that, says Steven Hyman, provost of Harvard University and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, "it is interfering with the core mission of the university."
