The most persistent thought I have lately is that, in recent years, a large segment of well-to-do American adults has become breathtakingly neurotic. washingtonpost.com
This just seems like a preposterous way to think about one’s kid having a sleepover.
No doubt Covid is a contributing factor here but I think we’re only scratching the surface of how social media usage like this drives the ambient neuroticism.
“I’m wary of sleepovers because my kids are multiracial” seems like a surefire way to mess up your kids’ childhoods.
I think the idea that “we live in a perilous time” is a self-important fiction that people concoct to justify their irrational fear of what they see on the news, similar to religious predictions that the end times are at hand.
It is somewhere between inconceivable and evil that, after all the ways adults have needlessly stunted the lives of kids in recent years, that anyone would think it makes sense to subtract from the remaining ways kids “can build social fluency and resilience.”
Not sure whether to laugh or cry at these two paragraphs
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