Rosin isn’t the first to make the observation that we may have protected our kids into wimpdom. In her book A Nation of Wimps, Psychology Today editor Hara Estroff Marano argued that parental overprotection and hovering have made kids vulnerable because they don’t learn to solve problems on their own. “Behold the wholly sanitized childhood, without skinned knees and the occasional C in history!” she wrote. “Kids need to learn that you need to feel bad sometimes. We learn through experience, and we learn especially through bad experiences.” Lenore Skenazy made the case for the opposite approach
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