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Are the Kids Alright? — with Jonathan Haidt

Your Undivided Attention

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The Coddling of the American Mind

In your book, the coddling of the american mind is that we've been over protective. We really have to care about kids thatare all so vulnerable. I think it's important for people to know, in your book, that you are not coming from a background of wheat. Ando ally speaking, if you protect your kid and you say, i'll make sure you never get lost. Well, you're not helping the kid. Kids must have a lot of negative experiences to develop normal strength and toughness. So i start from that osition that we do need to let kids out. But there's going ba interesting twist when we get to the question of, well,

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