Teacherscribe’s
Teaching Tip #11
Elmore notes how both abundance and abandonment come
together to form the perfect storm for this generation.
Psychologists noted that 25 years ago when parents started
removing jungle gyms and monkey bars removed to playgrounds because they were
dangerous. Psychologists noted that this
was a bad idea since kids who navigated these structures developed the same
cognitive skills that 15-20 years later would allow them to take the risks (and
learn to live with the results) like successfully navigating a marriage, a job
interview, surviving college . . . So
many young people are suffering from chronic depression from all of the
protection we gave them. They suffer
from abundance because in place of the monkey bars and jungle gym we gave them
so many other toys and tools. Yet, we
abandoned them when it came time to dealing with failure and building up grit
(just think of all those wretched parents who spoiled their kids’ Easter egg
hunts in Denver because they actually tried to push other children out of the
way to ensure that their own kids got the right amount of eggs). No wonder we have so many 27 year olds living
back at home with mom and dad.
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