Name: Why modern America creates fragile children | Jonathan Haidt
Uploaded: 2023-04-05T18:28:02.000Z
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but at the same time, there's a very sharp change

with kids who were born in 1995 and afterwards-

they spend a lot less time going out with friends.

They don't get a driver's license as often.

on their beds with their devices interacting that way.

These are the first kids who got social media when

They were subjected to much more anti-bullying content

They were raised in the years after 9/11.

They were given much less recess and free play.

there was much more testing pushed down into earlier grades.

the independent play that previous generations got.

Gen Z has been raised with what's called 'moral dependency.'

There's always been an adult there for them to go to,

and so we don't know if this is for sure the reason,

When we protect children from unpleasantness,

from conflicts, from insults, from teasing, from exclusion,

to be more easily damaged, to be more easily discouraged.

In the 1990s, as the crime rate was plummeting,

as American life was getting safer and safer,

Americans freaked out and thought that if they

The fear was stoked by cable TV in the 1980s;

there were a few high-profile abductions.

- 'Last year, 50,000 children disappeared.

Many of them from nice, safe neighborhoods.'

about not talking to strangers, and do it today.'

that we really start locking kids up and saying,

"You cannot be outside until you're 14 or 15."

Lenore Skenazy, who wrote the book, "Free Range Kids."

She became famous as "America's worst mom"

because in 2009, she let her 9-year-old son

Not only did he survive, he was thrilled.

We took this essential period of childhood

from about 8 to 12, when kids throughout history

have practiced independence, have gotten into adventures,

have made rafts and floated down the Mississippi River-

"You don't get to practice independence,"

until it's too late, until that period is over.

Now, a couple years before you go to college,

"Now you can go outside. Oh, okay, go off to college."

They're just not used to being independent.

When they get to college, they need more help.

Students are thinking in terms of safety and danger.

Students say, by their own admission, they are more fragile.

They use a language of fragility, weakness,

We should not be teaching our kids to to see the world

but full of offensive statements and ideas,

The bottom line is that if we want to raise a generation

of kids who can deal with diversity of all kinds,

who can go out into a world that's physically actually

quite safe but yet full of offensive, offensive content,

we need to get our educational practices in line

with some very basic, important psychological principles.

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