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From Baby Knee Pads to Trigger Warnings: How Helicoptered Kids become...
. This is the article everyone’s talking about: The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, on the cover of this month’s Atlantic. It discusses the idea taking root on...
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A Traumatized Reader Discusses Trigger Warnings
. Recently we were talking about the trend on campus to require “trigger warnings” — warnings on material assigned for class that could potentially traumatize a student by triggering a flashback on...
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Mob of Yale Students Scream Profanities about Halloween Costume Insensitivity
. A Halloween message signed by 13 college administrators asked Yale students to be sensitive about the costumes they chose, so as not to demean, alienate or “impact” any groups or individuals. But...
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The Antidote to Fragile Kids on Campus?
. Jonathan Haidt, the NYU Professor who, with First Amendment firebrand Greg Lukianoff co-authored the explosive Atlantic piece,”The Coddling of the American Mind,” was asked how to prevent another...
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“Sticks and Stones”— Too Harsh for Today’s Kids?
. Storyteller Tom Shillue ponders exactly the children’s rhyme I have been thinking a lot about lately, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” It’s annoying that I have...
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