Let’s stop pretending this is all a mystery.
Kids today are anxious, fragile, and disconnected—not because the world is scarier, but because we took away the very things that used to make kids strong.
They don’t ride bikes around town anymore. They don’t build forts in the woods. They don’t knock on a neighbor’s door and ask if their friend can play.
They don’t live in the real world—because we don’t let them. And let’s be honest: we don’t even live there ourselves anymore.
Screens Instead of Scrapes
We replaced scraped knees with screen time and thought we were doing them a favor. Instead, we taught them that boredom is a crisis and discomfort is abuse. We programmed them to seek validation from strangers on apps instead of forming real friendships.
Now we’re shocked they can’t hold a conversation or show up to work on time.
We Didn’t Just Coddle Them. We Lied to Them.
We told them the world was scary, so they stayed inside. We told them they were fragile, so they broke under pressure. We told them they had to be constantly entertained, so they lost the ability to think for themselves.
We fed them a diet ...
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