A friend on Facebook liked an article in The Atlantic called "How to Land Your Kid in Therapy." Reading this article not only gave me insight to the troubles of others in my own generation, but the feelings discussed and lack of coping skills described are things that I think I have struggled with personally as a young adult. This article speaks to the American way of raising children to believe they are special, talented, and better than others; to believe that they should be innately happy, that they deserve to feel happy all the time. The points Lori Gottlieb makes in this article about kids needing opportunities to feel discomfort in order to learn how to deal with discomfort and to rebound to comfort again, like a vaccine to expose them to a virus, is something for this mom of a very young child to think about. Anyway, here's the article...
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/how-to-land-your-kid-in-therapy/8555/
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