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Nation of Wimps:
How and Why We're Creating Psychologically Fragile Children

Hara Estroff Marano, Lenore Skenazy, Susan Davis

pic Bubble wrapped, sanitized, protected and weak. As we've tried to protect our children from every conceivable threat, real or imagined, we have essentially created a fragile generation of Americans who lack some of the basic coping and survival skills of generations past. The general consensus is that we're creating a nation of wimps.  So what can we do now?  Moreover what should you being doing differently with your child.
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