Yeah, this is a real thing
(WTVD)Â East Carolina University is starting an “adulting” counseling program to help students deal with failure and other pitfalls of growing up.
The school was prompted to begin the program after noticing an increase in counseling appointments – 9,000 appointments were quested last school year, an increase of 1,800 appointments in just two years, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Virginia Hardy said.
“Students don’t have an opportunity as much these days to manage failure, they don’t experience it in certain ways as much so they don’t know how to manage it when it happens,” Hardy told The Daily Reflector of Greenville reports (http://bit.ly/2b3kbsM ).
They’ll be offered relaxation techniques and ways of changing unproductive negative thoughts. I’d think they could go a bit further in showing Special Snowflakes that they aren’t special and the world is scary, and how to adapt to the Real World.
The goal is to teach students there will be setbacks in life and responding to them properly is key to their development. Counselors also want to prevent students from turning to drugs and alcohol to deal with stress, Hardy said.
“What is the self-talk you’re having with yourself? Are you beating yourself up because you got a C?” Hardy said. “If you change the self-talk, you can then change the behavior that’s exhibited.”
Now, I’m not going to discount positive motivational techniques. Some are very useful, such as the Pacific Institute, which is fantastic, having been to it myself, and lots of big companies and government agencies, such as the DOD, use it. But, without any acknowledgement that the world will not coddle today’s brand of Special Snowflakeness, this is doomed to fail.
That all said, teaching college kids a bit about how the real world works would be worthwhile. Certainly, parents play a part, and working summer jobs and jobs while at college are helpful. I think that most of you, if not all, who attended college would agree with me that even 10-20 years ago college was still almost another world. It’s even more divorced from the real world today. Sure, lots of kids will make the adjustment, as they aren’t Special Snowflakes, but it can be a bit tough even for them.
One does have to wonder, though, how many of those 9,000 were the same snowflakes showing up again and again and again? Let’s end with this
East Carolina officials will also reach out to elementary, middle and high schools to see if they can teach coping skills and resiliency at a younger age.
Try and nip Special Snowflake Syndrome in the butt earlier.
From my observations the parents of theses special snowflakes spent the kids formative years pawing them off on nannies or an au pair, then pre-school, then babysitters and finally are willing to shell out up to 200 grand for college so they don’t have to play a part in their lives. And even if these spoiled brats wanted to work which I truly doubt, the democrats have done their best to price the untrained idiots out of the entry level job market.
I went to college a long time ago, with Socrates, and I had GI Bill money but I worked and went to school all year round while living at home. I had a couple very small scholarships and paid my entire way through an Ivy League school with only a bit of help from my parents. Of course the tuition wasn’t much then since the liberals had not yet ruined the market by pumping billions of dollars into loans. If one didn’t pay, one didn’t attend.
OMG!
At least part of this problem is caused by the notion that college is for everybody and anybody can go with Other People’s Money. Lots of kids just show up, unprepared, because it is the thing to do. High school follow-on babysitting facility.
Kids who have ambition and who have set goals for an education and career in a field of their interest will have planned, researched, funded, and will have the drive to overcome the minor bureaucratic obstacles imposed by college. They’ll be too focused on their goals to worry about microaggressions and safe spaces. They’ll be too busy doing homework and working part-time. College for me was five days and nights of classes and study, a bender on Friday, and work-study jobs on any breaks. Science and math professors who considered it their duty to weed you out of the program. Lots of all-nighters to make sure I wouldn’t be weeded out.
Who the F%$* had time for whining?
Yes Hoagie, its the rule of macroeconomics: You put external money into a system, the prices invariably rise. The mysterious “education bubble” that experts keep wringing their hands over, is really no mystery at all.
But wait-I thought in liberal land “everybody is a winner!”
Hey! Who’s from Catonsville? I lived there way back when.
I hear the libtards are now going to give out “Observation Trophies” for people in the audience so they don’t feel “abused” and “left out”. Everybody gets a trophy.
Teach weren’t you in fact a very special special snowflake ? Certainly attending one of the most elite and expensive prep schools in the whole country must have made the transition to East Carolina State a breeze and success there pretty much a given
And now for our leftist rwaders perhaps we should ban knoves too:
Go Obama! Go Leftists!
Hoagie DOES seem to take an unseemly delight in tragedy if political points can be made
And actually the killer also carried a gun http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/03/03/death-penalty-indictment-filed-against-convicted-cocaine-dealer-who-allegedly-murdered-woman-two-kids-after-getting-early-release-from-obama-admin/
Hope his gun possession isn’t a buzz kill for you Hoagie
Of course the article doesn’t say whether he brought the gun to the scene of the murder or whether he took the gun from the people he murdered. (Little details like that are often missed by john.)
The real buzz kill for john should be the fact that if the guy brought the gun with him as he asserts, it means a felon illegally possessed a handgun while the victim did not.
Yet john thinks that more laws are going to stop criminals from breaking the law with a handgun.
I love how John always likes to attempt to attack me personally, rather than dealing with the actual material. But, no, John, I did not suffer from Special Snowflake Syndrome. We weren’t taught that we were all special. Our competitions featured winners and losers. We did not get participation medals. We had to earn our grades. When I got in trouble I paid the price. We were taught things like respect and being Adult. My parents held me responsible, as did my teachers and coaches.
I suspect you know exactly what I’m talking about, that you are dismayed by all this SSS, and are just trying to be contradictory.