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    Jonanthan “Coddling of the American Mind” On How Overprotection Hurts Our Kids

    November 30, 2018
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    Prof. Jonathan Haidt is one of the four co-founders of Let Grow. In a new 4-minute video he discusses how American parents have been persuaded to treat their kids as fragile — and how that has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Click here to go to the video, at Let Grow.

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    1. Corey Widen on November 30, 2018 3:12 pm

      He just spoke in my neighborhood last night! I was not able to go but would love to know how attendance was?

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