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Originally Posted by Simplex3
I'm betting this has a lot to do with kids not learning to lose on the little things.
It seems to me that we spend too much time trying to protect kids from emotional pain. As we get older the things that hurt us are more severe. If we haven't developed the ability to deal with the small things the big things are too much.
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Agreed. It just seems like the newer generation doesnt have the same coping mechanisms that previous ones did. There are more and more stories of kids falling off of a cliff these days. 3 days before Halloween a 20 year old 5 houses away hung himself from the tree in his front yard...popular kid, young, blah, blah, blah.
Another recent story in these parts was a young mom in her 20's who, with her dirtbag boyfriend, strapped her 3 kids all under age 9 into a car and pushed them into a local lake???
There are just too many distractions and not enough family support in modern life IMO.