Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
The premise of this thread is most definitely TRUE.

If you've read Jordan Peterson, this is one of his 12 rules for life. 'Don't bother kids when they're skateboarding'. His point being that kids can't accomplish anything if they can't fail. They'll never learn to ollie or grind rails unless they scrape a few elbows and bruise a few kneecaps.

More broadly speaking, there seems to be an epic phenomenon of helicopter parenting. Kids are never far from adult supervision. Order is always enforced. No one ever learns how to contend with chaos.

I don't know if there are any credible data on this, but I'm quite sure that the % of 10 year olds that know how to ride a bike is WAAAAAAYYYY down.
Good ol' JP. Lesson of the nursing home: never do for somebody what they can do for themselves.