Older people (I hold up my hand here) sometimes wonder if the young are just not as tough as we were...
In the more extreme position (which I certainly do not share), the crisis in young people's mental health is entirely because it is over pathologised & the young should just 'toughen up'....
As Dusana Dorjee argues, while learning better resilience can play a role in helping children's mental health, it skews responses if over-emphasised!
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Randulo.com
In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 I believe after having witnessed over 50 decades as an adult that life is radically different today than it was when we came up. The difference is far more significant than the one between our parents' generation, IMO.
If nothing else, the instantaneous speed and the unabashed content of news and social networks and the ubiquity of images has changed everyday life.
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In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 I don’t think kids are weaker it’s just that they’ve been brought up in the shadow of instability. Nervous parents perpetually worried about the future probably don’t generate the happiest family atmosphere (I have some experience of this from both sides, as a child and a parent). It’s the fault of #neoliberalism I suspect. Not much time to be a child these days either.
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Yes, I do wonder about the threshold of semi-adulthood becoming way too young - we seem to allow children too few years to enjoy being children
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h4890
In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 I believe younger people are weaker. But before the net hating starts, I do not believe it is their fault.
I believe that political trends such as wokeness, never saying no, and setting the expectation that you never have to fight in life or that life is always fun, is the reason for it.
If todays young would have been given an upbringing where they experience a "no", where they learn that life is not always fun, and that you need to fight to get what you want, I believe they
@h4890
Yes, I think there's quite a lot to that; its a combination of parenting & social change, which are of course inter-connected - not sure 'woeness' is really the issue, but the issue of saying 'no' would be at the centre of my concerned & I have posted on that relatively recently....
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@ChrisMayLA6 would be much more robust and resilient.
On top of that, we can then always argue about the evils of social media. If I had a child, I would definitely ban most social media until they are old enough to have had some good values established.
I teach, and my students are aged 19-50, with the majority being between 19-30. I see this erroneous expectations every time the subject gets a bit hard, or every time it is time for an exam.
I don't back down, and I tell them to fight,
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