I had an Uncle who fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He would not talk about it, but I managed to learn his story from another family member. I shared that with my kids and I could the light bulbs start to come on. Maybe teaching actual history (as opposed to the PC bullshit they now teach in schools) would be a step towards fixing this problem.
If you're having this argument with your kids, I suspect it's safe to say you are already far more the solution than the problem!
The younger generations are more fragile and less resilient, if we go by the data. That's reality.
I don't look at it from a standpoint of blame. My questioning is always a simple "how do we fix it?"
I had an Uncle who fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He would not talk about it, but I managed to learn his story from another family member. I shared that with my kids and I could the light bulbs start to come on. Maybe teaching actual history (as opposed to the PC bullshit they now teach in schools) would be a step towards fixing this problem.
Teaching anything in schools rather than the crap they serve up now would be a step forward.
Actual history. Actual math. Actual composition and rhetoric. Actual thinking skills.