tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post1866839449118478370..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Kids today not excited by games and toys, as helicopter parents forbid play (a field report)agnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-29612784514059163882014-07-09T09:24:42.511-04:002014-07-09T09:24:42.511-04:00I'd be willing to bet the helicopter parents t...I'd be willing to bet the helicopter parents these days would be afraid to leave their child's side for a minute in a large toy store. FWGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-21726765910350047622014-07-09T00:01:58.806-04:002014-07-09T00:01:58.806-04:00funny, there's a new documentary out about the...funny, there's a new documentary out about the 60s. are we heading for that? I dunno, I think "Face to Face" argued that what we're going to is more simlilar to the 20s, because we have an aging demographic and, according to theory, will soon experience rising equality(falling immigration).Curtisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-84958908681577209462014-07-08T17:32:33.536-04:002014-07-08T17:32:33.536-04:00What a coincidence. Just yesterday I was somewhere...What a coincidence. Just yesterday I was somewhere (less than 24 hours later I can't remember- welcome to 57), and Mom had a 3 year old who was playing contentedly with a heavy equipment toy, I. e. road grader type thing. Exactly like it was 1962.quoted at CHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-41311926240481735252014-07-08T07:21:58.055-04:002014-07-08T07:21:58.055-04:00Bender: Fry, of all the friends I've had, you&...Bender: Fry, of all the friends I've had, you're the first.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-38419739917084505822014-07-07T22:59:55.910-04:002014-07-07T22:59:55.910-04:00I think that's something slightly different. Y...I think that's something slightly different. You're talking about where the person doesn't know where an appropriate boundary is (between dangerous and safe). They just rule everyone outside of their family as dangerous, which is silly.<br /><br />They aren't willing to wander and explore outside of their tiny little comfort zone to see how deep the water is, so to speak, at various distances away from "me." Their assumption is that you can tread water around the family, and then it instantly falls off to a bottomless pit.<br /><br />This comes from their helicopter parent upbringing. Have you noticed how they don't allow their kids to roam around and find out where the right boundaries are? Instead of letting them interact with their peers and discover which ones are worthwhile friends and which are not, they close off peer interaction altogether. Instead of showing them which plants are irritant and which are not, when walking through the woods, they just tell them not to touch any plants at all.<br /><br />They rationalize these black-and-white / hard-and-fast rules as being more suitable for the immature mind, which cannot grasp subtle distinctions. But like the rest of their rationalizations, it's just a paper-thin strategy for minimizing the parents' own anxieties about letting their kids awkwardly grope around to get a feel for the landscape.<br /><br />Groping around requires trial-and-error, risk and reward, hard falls and healing, and all that other awkward real-life stuff. Let's just pretend that they're incapable of that, and pen them in with laughable, absolute rules and regulations.<br /><br />Such children grow up more or less blind and numb to the lay of the land they must now go out into, but it's not all a loss -- at least the parents got to feel comfortable in avoiding real-life awkwardness.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-59113994457441209882014-07-07T21:54:21.130-04:002014-07-07T21:54:21.130-04:00" It also taught us how to weigh competing al..." It also taught us how to weigh competing alternatives, rank them, and set about trying to reach those goals"<br /><br />Right, this is the same ability at play when you discriminate between between a customer who might be dangerous vs. one who isn't. Curtisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-70896267413852526342014-07-07T21:36:26.413-04:002014-07-07T21:36:26.413-04:00I recall an older post where, when you were turned...I recall an older post where, when you were turned away from a McDonald's drive-through, you argued that Millenials lack the ability to discriminate. This seems the case here. They can't pick out which they like better.Curtisnoreply@blogger.com