This actually sounds about right.
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A great look at the role of failure and difficulty in the lives of children and why, without a little toughening, they're not growing and learning (Psychology Today [Hara Estroff Marano], November/December 2004).
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hello nokoThe stressful world of cutthroat competition that parents see their kids facing may not even
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M GOverprotective child-rearing leaves next generation ill-equipped to deal with life. Lots of specific examples.
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There is, instead, a growing no-man's-land of postadolescence from 20 to 30, which they dub "early adulthood." Those in it look like adults but "haven't become fully adult yet—traditionally defined as finishing school, landing a job with benefits, marrying and parenting—because they are not ready or perhaps not permitted to do so."
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Add Sticky NoteThe first thing students do when they walk out the door of my classroom is flip open the cell phone. Ninety-five percent of the conversations go like this: 'I just got out of class; I'll see you in the library in five minutes.' Absent the phone, you'd have to make arrangements ahead of time; you'd have to think ahead
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Think of the cell phone as the eternal umbilicus. One of the ways we grow up is by internalizing an image of Mom and Dad and the values and advice they imparted over the early years. Then, whenever we find ourselves faced with uncertainty or difficulty, we call on that internalized image. We become, in a way, all the wise adults we've had the privilege to know.
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