Know how I tradtionally bitch about education?...
...I may have been incorrect about apportioning blame for how fucked-up the schools are. It's most likely a secondary effect from Mommy and Daddy and their defense
ad nauseum of their sweet little angel...
Not my tirade - this one is from Psychology Today:
We are producing a nation of punk-ass biatches by pathologically over-protecting our children from real-life learning experiences IMHO the author nailed it - wish I'd read it earlier. I can kind of understand how we might want to spare our kids the most painful things we carry with us from our own experiences - in my own youth, I've fucked up bad enough that I've been known to publically wish for a brainwipe. But, the harshest lessons are not only the most important ones, they're the lessons we most needed to learn to make us the persons we are today. We shouldn't deprive our own kids of the value of those lessons by protecting them from themselves.
Bottom line? Let's not do that form of child abuse to our kids...