There are obviously a lot of variables that go into the uptick we’ve seen in mass shootings. Everyone focuses on AWs and I can understand that. Drugs, quality of life, mental disorders, etc.
Is it possible that we’ve focused as a society on protecting children too much? What I mean by that, we try to insulate them from adversity and increase stress for performance in academic areas. From a social development standpoint though, we’ve tried to shield them in a Barney generational sense. What if this is contributing? I mean, what if kids aren’t developing natural coping mechanisms at a younger age and when hit with that “it” moment, they revert back to a base instinct that they haven’t learned through the normal childhood experiences like we grew up with? We’ve conditioned them wrong perhaps.
Just something I was thinking.
Is it possible that we’ve focused as a society on protecting children too much? What I mean by that, we try to insulate them from adversity and increase stress for performance in academic areas. From a social development standpoint though, we’ve tried to shield them in a Barney generational sense. What if this is contributing? I mean, what if kids aren’t developing natural coping mechanisms at a younger age and when hit with that “it” moment, they revert back to a base instinct that they haven’t learned through the normal childhood experiences like we grew up with? We’ve conditioned them wrong perhaps.
Just something I was thinking.