New York Daily News: Is Zeal for Safety Hurting Kids?
New York Daily News – August 11, 2009 By Alexandra Hazlett Are we raising a generation of wimps? Dig even a little (try Googling “wussification of America”) and you’ll find no shortage of experts and private citizens ready to say that dodgeball bans, preoccupations with self-esteem, and sanitized childhoods devoid of skinned knees are collectively raising a cadre of wusses. These coddled children, they say, will be unprepared for the brutal real world, which doesn’t give everyone a trophy. On the other side of the fence are experts and parents who contend that these fears are overblown and represent nothing more than adult nostalgia for days gone by. Children are still… • [>] Read the article. ShareThis var shared_object = SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: document.title, url: document.location.href }); shared_object.attachButton(document.getElementById(“ck_sharethis”)); shared_object.attachChicklet(“facebook”, document.getElementById(“ck_facebook”)); shared_object.attachChicklet(“twitter”,
