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Every 10 years someone posts this. The message it sends is this "I don't actually take time to understand the unique situation of being a kid in today's economy and culture. I do not acknowledge that the experience is rapidly changing. I am uncomfortable with this new world and would rather put the blame on kids being 'coddled' without any data to suggest this than confront my own lack of understanding."

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Every previous generation thinks the current generation is coddled. When I was a kid, I had to walk through 10 miles of snow to get to school. "Snow day"? Schools are creating sissies I tell ya.

Back in my day, my Mum used to listen to the internet on our house phone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

That doesn't make it not true. It's very possible (and seems likely to me) that each generation has been more coddled than the previous in recent memory.

In fact it's the default expectation with the rising standards of living.

However that has started to stagnate for all but the upper middle class so the next decade should be quite interesting.

AKA Juvenoia https://youtu.be/LD0x7ho_IYc

The current generation is "coddled", and they should be. I grew up in rural Alaska, in one of the snowiest spots on the globe. If other people had somewhat less hellish school commutes I would consider that civilized. If on the other hand the goal is to expose children to potentially lethal weather conditions, Alaska still exists.

I don't see where you addressed the substance of the parent post--was your own post truncated?

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