Summary of Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff's The Coddling of the American Mind

Sample Insights:

1) The word “coddling” means overprotecting. Today’s youth face many problems and a lot of pressure, and they are not responsible for those problems, nor are they spoiled or lazy. However, adults are overprotecting them and preventing them from finding solutions for their problems.

2) In the early 1990s kids began increasingly suffering from peanut allergies, schools began banning peanuts, and parents forbade their children from having any. However, as it turns out, this in itself resulted in a boom of peanut allergy.