Psychology Today has a lengthy article on how trial lawyers, Nanny Staters, and the self-esteem industry have created a generation of helmeted, elbow-padded, sharp-corners-dulled, emotionally fragile wimps who tend to break down when they get to college.

I’d go a bit further, and suggest that today, the coddling continues through college. I actually found college easier than high school. These kids then hit the real world, and are mortified when confronted with real risk and real responsibility, obligations that actually have to fulfilled, and that their own success or failure is — Egad! — in their own hands. Of course, that’s when they start whining, and asking the government for help.

Call it Anya Kamenetz Syndrome.

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 30th, 2006 at 10:52 am by Radley Balko and is filed under Nanny State, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.