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Sorry, no news item in this one. I am privileged to talk to a highly intelligent school principal frequently and often get her insights into kids currently in school. Our conversation this week was interesting.<\/p>\n
“Kids today have no – and I mean no – conflict resolution skills. No one has taught them that everything doesn’t always break in their direction, or that sometimes they are NOT the winners, but just finish in the pack. They absolutely cannot handle rejection of any kind – you would think they would learn after a while that not every person can be their best friend, or that if someone throws a party and they are not invited, it doesn’t mean they are worthless and it’s a gigantic personal crisis. Maybe the kid throwing the party can only have so many guests? and on their personal list, you may rank X+1 of X invitees. Doesn’t mean they hate you, just that X kids are a little higher on their personal list.<\/p>\n
“They are under so much social media pressure to have thousands of likes, and fan appreciation –\u00a0 and if they don’t, the bullying dogpiling of not just their friends but total strangers makes them feel useless. Kids have enough problems at this age just trying to figure out how to fit in – not having been taught enough of how to handle the times when they don’t fit in leaves them depressed and kind of crazy.<\/p>\n
“I think a lot of it is due to their parenting…their parents never teach them that sometimes they lose, or that not everyone is going to like them – and that’s OK.\u00a0 Helicoptering and trying to prevent kids from EVER having a conflict, that the world has no “safe spaces”, and never helping them grow to be adults who can accept differences between people – that’s on the parents. And even the parents don’t know these things.\u00a0 One mother I have complained that the school had done nothing to stop her kid from being bullied all year – when she complained the second to last day of school! How are we supposed to nip things in the bud if no one tells us until it is ‘way to late to react? And that same parent still complains that the school should have “done something” about a problem they did not know existed, while the parent who DID know there was a problem did nothing.”<\/p>\n
Makes you see why these kids shoot each other at the drop of the hat… they have only two switch positions for conflicts, NONE and NUCLEAR.<\/p>\n
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