Mollycoddling

Increase in young people mental health

More and more young people are arriving in mental clinics a third of those aged 18-24 experienced symptoms of mental health illness such as anxiety or depression. Young people were more likely to experience mental disorder than any other group.

Five percent of young people of young adults aren't working due to sickness with four in ten citing mental health as the main reason. Younger children too, are refusing to go to school because of mental health difficulties, with more than a quarter of secondary school children are classed as persistently absent. It would be easy to point the finger of blame and deride them for being snowflakes, but it can't be their fault entirely. Parents after all, are the ones who have the greatest influence over their children, and the fear is parents who have so mollycoddled this generation, they no longer know what resilience even means.

We must stop mollycoddling

These days an entire cohort of so-called helicopter parents believe their principal job is to soothe away every little problem their child might encounter. In this philosophy resilience is wrongly associated with bottling up feelings and a stiff upper lip approach to life. It seems that in this era it is wrong to suggest that children should be taught to stand firm when things go wrong and work through their feelings without caving in to them.

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