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Mike
Carruthers:
Kids
today are different because parents are different, and the result
is often kids who lack resourcefulness.
Brad Smart:
Prior to WWII, every generation in the history of the
world had to be resourceful, they had to do it to survive - they
had to figure out how to get food, how to avoid the mountain lions
and so forth.
Dr. Brad Smart,
co-author of the book Smart
Parenting…
A whole generation
came back from WWII with dads who had fought the war and they
didn't want their kids to have to go through so much pain. And
we have that same sort of phenomenon today - well meaning-parents,
loving parents who don't want their kids to have to struggle
so much. So we tend to give them too much stuff, which spoils
their motivation and we make too many decisions for them. And
what we're doing is destroying the most important of all skills,
which is resourcefulness, and Osama Bin Laden couldn't be happier
to see a whole generation of kids who are passive, helpless
and dependent.
Even back in
the 60's and 70's, kids were allowed more freedom to develop
their resourcefulness than kids are allowed today.
Their parents
said, "Hey, go take care of yourself, come in for dinner."
And they had a whole lot of freedom and they had to figure things
out, and there were some times, some kids got into accidents
and so forth and that could have been prevented. But, the other
extreme, over-protect kids so they cannot fall off a swing in
a playground because there are no more swings. We're becoming
so sanitized and robotic that kids don't have an opportunity
to succeed.
Tomorrow, what
happens to these un-resourceful kids when they grow up - I'm
Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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