So I was thinking about this during jury duty today... I wonder if the extreme levels of bullying and the subsequent extreme reaction to the bullying has anything to do with the way kids are treated these days...
What I mean... there seems to be a dilliberate effort to give children super-egos. Little leagues don't keep score and everyone gets a trophy, parents trying to be friends instead of parents, no real discipline or accountability, etc... I wonder if this has anything to do with the kids having such emotional extremes... add buckets full of hormones and there you go...
Maybe the kids are keeping themselves in check like society should be... hmm...
That reminds me of something I remember hearing when I was very young... My old man coached youth football (then called midget football, but you cant say that any more)... His teams always dominated. I remember some parent one time bitching out my dad cause he didn't play his kid... my dad responded, "I play the ones who are the best and rotate in the others if needed"... the guy got pissed and said it was unfair... My dad's response, "ask the kids if they want to win... they will say yes... now ask them who needs to be in the game for them to win... they pick the same ones I play."
Are we born with the ability to decipher the pecking order and is our society creating monsters by trying to defeat that instinct?
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