Here’s more on the fragility theme: A quarter of college students were diagnosed with mental health conditions within the past year,” concludes a study published in Depression Anxiety. One in five students reported suicidal thoughts; nine percent had attempted suicide. Researchers surveyed 67,300 students at 108 colleges in the U.S. during the spring semester of 2015. The study found transgender and bisexual students in particular were more vulnerable to suffering from mental

Mamas, don’t raise your kids to be snowflakes, says social psychologist Jonathan Haidt in a Spiked interview. Over-protective parents are raising a “fragile generation,” he says. “Until the early 1980s kids spent a lot of time outside playing without adult supervision, but by the early 2000s that has almost disappeared, especially for younger kids.” Kids need conflict, insult, exclusion – they need to experience these things thousands of times when they’re young in order to d

(Snowflakes) don’t demand safe spaces from kids’ scalding hot tongues. We don’t ask for trigger warnings every time a dog starts sniffing around. Enough is enough.” The term Generation Snowflake “is an insult to snowflakes everywhere,” the flake concluded. It sounds like cultural appropriation to me! #collegestudents #fragility #GenerationSnowflake #microaggressions