Teaching Kids How to Overcome Helplessness

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Teaching Kids How to Overcome Helplessness

Digitally connected kids face daunting comparisons that can make them think their efforts are futile.
By Stephanie Samar, Contributor Sept. 27, 2018, at 7:00 a.m.


Kids (like adults) have a lot on their plates today. Make a point to regularly unplug, take breaks and spend time together without digital distractions.(iStockphoto)

Children and teens of Generation Z are growing up in a world where global connectivity and continuous access to technology have shaped every aspect of their lives.

Their unprecedented accessibility is a double-edged sword; it offers them a way to connect with their world with just the click of a button, but it also exposes them to a barrage of benchmarks for success. Between tallies of Instagram followers, YouTube celebrities, Snapchat streaks and overall growing academic pressure, kids know how they measure up to those around them as they strive to make their mark on the world. In the past, kids compared themselves to those in their immediate environment – generating passions and growing their strengths within these smaller systems. Today, it’s a much different story. There’s constant pressure to achieve and be successful on a global scale. When the world is your oyster, the pressure is on to yield a pearl.

https://health.usnews.com/wellness/for-parents/articles/2018-09-27/teaching-kids-how-to-overcome-helplessness

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Teaching Kids How to Overcome Helplessness

You mean parenting?   

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When your child says he or she can't do homework because of depression, slap the child hard across the face and say loudly and firmly "snap out of it!"

Then prepare to spend the rest of your life in jail.
 
 

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Their unprecedented accessibility is a double-edged sword; it offers them a way to connect with their world with just the click of a button, but it also exposes them to a barrage of benchmarks for success. Between tallies of Instagram followers, YouTube celebrities, Snapchat streaks and overall growing academic pressure, kids know how they measure up to those around them as they strive to make their mark on the world.

What absolutely useless criteria.

[mountaineer]

When your child says he or she can't do homework because of depression, slap the child hard across the face and say loudly and firmly "snap out of it!"

Then prepare to spend the rest of your life in jail.

That's because we just should leave it up to the "village" to raise the children. After all, it's doing so well so far.