The Complicated Science Behind When Babies Are Conceived. Chances are you were told in school that you could get pregnant any time you have sex so dont have. It is the year 2017 of Roger Federer, and He is about to play in the Wimbledon final for the 11th time, and He has yet to drop a set. The seventime champ cut down. Digital Studios CNN. Almost all of the kids. The Fragile Generation Reason. One day last year, a citizen on a prairie path in the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst came upon a teen boy chopping wood. Not a body. Just some already fallen branches. Nonetheless, the onlooker called the cops. Officers interrogated the boy, who said he was trying to build a fort for himself and his friends. A local news site reports the police then took the tools for safekeeping to be returned to the boys parents. Elsewhere in America, preschoolers at the Learning Collaborative in Charlotte, North Carolina, were thrilled to receive a set of gently used playground equipment. But the kids soon found out they would not be allowed to use it, because it was resting on grass, not wood chips. Its a safety issue, explained a day care spokeswoman. Gamepad Companion 3.1. Playing on grass is against local regulations. And then there was the query that ran in Parents magazine a few years back Your childs old enough to stay home briefly, and often does. But is it okay to leave her and her playmate home while you dash to the dry cleaner Absolutely not, the magazine averred Take the kids with you, or save your errand for another time. After all, you want to make sure that no ones feelings get too hurt if theres a squabble. The principle here is simple This generation of kids must be protected like none other. They cant use tools, they cant play on grass, and they certainly cant be expected to work through a spat with a friend. And this, it could be argued, is why we have safe spaces on college campuses and millennials missing adult milestones today. We told a generation of kids that they can never be too safeand they believed us. Safety First. Weve had the best of intentions, of course. But efforts to protect our children may be backfiring. When we raise kids unaccustomed to facing anything on their own, including risk, failure, and hurt feelings, our society and even our economy are threatened. Yet modern child rearing practices and laws seem all but designed to cultivate this lack of preparedness. Theres the fear that everything children see, do, eat, hear, and lick could hurt them. And theres a newer belief that has been spreading through higher education that words and ideas themselves can be traumatizing. How did we come to think a generation of kids cant handle the basic challenges of growing up Beginning in the 1. American childhood changed. For a variety of reasonsincluding shifts in parenting norms, new academic expectations, increased regulation, technological advances, and especially a heightened fear of abduction missing kids on milk cartons made it feel as if this exceedingly rare crime was rampantchildren largely lost the experience of having large swaths of unsupervised time to play, explore, and resolve conflicts on their own. This has left them more fragile, more easily offended, and more reliant on others. They have been taught to seek authority figures to solve their problems and shield them from discomfort, a condition sociologists call moral dependency. This poses a threat to the kind of open mindedness and flexibility young people need to thrive at college and beyond. If they arrive at school or start careers unaccustomed to frustration and misunderstandings, we can expect them to be hypersensitive. And if they dont develop the resources to work through obstacles, molehills come to look like mountains. This magnification of danger and hurt is prevalent on campus today. It no longer matters what a person intended to say, or how a reasonable listener would interpret a statementwhat matters is whether any individual feels offended by it. If so, the speaker has committed a microaggression, and the offended partys purely subjective reaction is a sufficient basis for emailing a dean or filing a complaint with the universitys bias response team. The net effect is that both professors and students today report that they are walking on eggshells. This interferes with the process of free inquiry and open debatethe active ingredients in a college education. And if thats the case already, what of the kids still in grammar school, constantly reminded they might accidentally hurt each other with the wrong words When todays 8 year olds become the 1. Kids &Amp; Babies - Digital Backgrounds' title='Kids &Amp; Babies - Digital Backgrounds' />As Daniel Shuchman, chairman of the free speech promoting Foundation for Individual Rights in Education FIRE, puts it, How likely are they to consider the First Amendment essential if they start learning in fifth grade that youre forbidden to sayor even thinkcertain things, especially at schoolParents, teachers, and professors are talking about the growing fragility they see. Its hard to avoid the conclusion that the overprotection of children and the hypersensitivity of college students could be two sides of the same coin. By trying so hard to protect our kids, were making them too safe to succeed. Children on a Leash. Kids &Amp; Babies - Digital Backgrounds' title='Kids &Amp; Babies - Digital Backgrounds' />Search metadata Search full text of books Search TV captions Search archived web sites Advanced Search. Babies Kids Wallpapers, Baby Flying on a Bird, Sweetheart Loveable Baby with Blue Eyes, Cuddly Girl, Two Babies Sleeping, Loveable Angel Baby Girl, Innocent Sweet. Summer holidays in North Wales 20 amazing fun events to keep the kids occupied. Take a look at some of the biggest and best events suitable for kids. If youre over 4. And chances are also good that, if you were asked about it now, youd go on and on about playing in the woods and riding your bike until the streetlights came on. Today many kids are raised like veal. Only 1. 3 percent of them even walk to school. Many who take the bus wait at the stop with parents beside them like bodyguards. For a while, Rhode Island was considering a bill that would prohibit children from getting off the bus in the afternoon if there wasnt an adult waiting to walk them home. This would have applied until seventh grade. As for summer frolicking, campers dont just have to take a buddy with them wherever they go, including the bathroom. Some are now required to take twoone to stay with whoever gets hurt, the other to run and get a grown up. Gundam Vs Gundam Next Plus Cwcheat there. Walking to the john is treated like climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. After school, kids no longer come home with a latchkey and roam the neighborhood. Instead, theyre locked into organized, supervised activities. Youth sports are a 1. Children as young as third grade are joining traveling teamswhich means their parents spend a lot of time in the car, too. Or theyre at tutoring. Or theyre at music lessons. And if all else fails, they are in their rooms, online. Even if parents want to shoo their kids outsideand dont come home till dinnerits not as easy as it once was. Often, there are no other children around to play with. Even more dishearteningly, adults who believe its good for young people to run some errands or play kickball down the street have to think twice about letting them, because busybodies, cops, and social workers are primed to equate unsupervised with neglected and in danger. You may remember the story of the Meitivs in Maryland, investigated twice for letting their kids, 1. Or the Debra Harrell case in South Carolina, where a mom was thrown in jail for allowing her 9 year old to play at the sprinkler playground while she worked at Mc. Donalds. Or the 8 year old Ohio boy who was supposed to get on the bus to Sunday school, but snuck off to the Family Dollar store instead. His dad was arrested for child endangerment. These examples represent a new outlook the belief that anytime kids are doing anything on their own, they are automatically under threat. But that outlook is wrong. The crime rate in America is back down to what it was in 1. And it hasnt gotten safer because were hovering over our kids. All violent crime is down, including against adults. Danger Things. And yet it doesnt feel safer.