cbifoja
Proud Parent
- Oct 9, 2012
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I would yank my kid from a gym with a "no cry" policy. No wonder we're raising a generation of emotional invalids. Crying is a natural response to stress, fear, anger, hurt, and any number of things.
You see a generation of emotional invalids, I see a generation of survivors who don't wilt at the smallest disappointment.
Personally, I am SO over the Princess Polly and Prince Pimperton method of child-rearing. I don't treat my kid like a fragile daffodil who will wilt if someone chastises her. Of course it is hard to watch someone else reprimand your kid. It bothers me frequently when her coach says some things to her. It really bothers me when she says mean things to her. I ache for her. But I don't say anything because I want her to learn to take care of these kinds of things and to have thick skin. She is going to have to deal with plenty of mean people. She's got to know how to handle them and mean people don't respect tears.
Life is hard as hell and I am trying to raise an adult who can fight back when life knocks her down, not one that is going to start crying because she's upset about something.