There's definitely a lot of things about the helicopter generation that scare me. For me it isn't so much the captivity that bothers me (though it does) so much as how are our kids supposed to learn if we don't give them the chance to make mistakes?
How many of us actually learned anything by just blindly doing what we were told versus testing some of those limits? To me many of the situations we put our children in are designed to prevent them from having to rely on themselves to understand the rules or to prevent them from testing the rules. And that's all well and good for keeping them under control but scary when you think that at some point they need to grow up, be adults and understand how to set their own rules.
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Date: 2012-08-22 03:28 pm (UTC)How many of us actually learned anything by just blindly doing what we were told versus testing some of those limits? To me many of the situations we put our children in are designed to prevent them from having to rely on themselves to understand the rules or to prevent them from testing the rules. And that's all well and good for keeping them under control but scary when you think that at some point they need to grow up, be adults and understand how to set their own rules.
Did that make sense?