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 In the article "What Happens When We Don't Raise Kids to Become Adults," Senator Ben Sasse, who was president of a university before he became a U.S. senator, writes - "Dispiritingly, students overwhelmingly highlighted their desire for freedom from responsibilities. The activities they most enjoyed, they reported, were sleeping in, skipping class, and partying. A few mentioned canceled classes as the best part of their four years. ...Almost nowhere did the student surveys reveal that they had the eyes to see freedom to categories — to read, to learn, to be coached, to be mentored in an internship." When a child is raised with gradually increasing responsibilities — cleaning one's room, washing dishes and/or clothes, taking out the trash, mowing the lawn, etc., and in teenage years getting a job and reporting to work on time, obeying the boss, serving the public, and earning a paycheck — then the young adult realizes what the real world is like, what life requires of a person in order to be a productive member of society. Instead, many children are coddled, given whatever they want whenever they pout or throw a fit for it, never made to clean up their room, wash the dishes, take out the trash... then they become "snowflakes" in college demanding their "safe spaces" from uncomfortable ideas that demand they think and act rationally and constructively in the world. Then they graduate, hopefully get a job where they expect to be entitled to a corner office and big, fat benefit package their first day on the job. Or they never get a job, just live in their parents' basement and complain about how the world is unfair. Or worse, they become bums that expect to mooch "free stuff" from the food banks, welfare offices and homeless shelters. My wife and I have volunteered at inner-city missions and occaisionally meet college-educated bums who are wasting their lives by living off "free stuff" from inner-city missions and homeless shelters. Very sad! Read the full article to get the whole story! And subscribe below to get our free weekly newsletter: |