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A Brief History of We Are Raising a Generation of Wimps

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2023 Arnold Schwarzenegger warns ‘over-babying’ can create ‘generation of wimps’ --Global News, 6 October 2023
2016 "I am appalled at Purdue University. We are raising a generation of wimps," one Facebook commenter wrote. --Journal and Courier, 11 November 2016
2007 Dress for winter We are raising a generation of overweight wimps who do not know how to dress properly for school or the weather. --Detroit Free Press, 11 February 2007
1996 Stress and new generation of wimps Sir, -- There has been a judgment to award compensation to four policemen said to be suffering from something called "Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome" I know that in the past Mr. Nash from Wythall and myself have not always agreed. Perhaps the time has now come when we should join together to claim damages for the stress which we both suffered some fifty years ago when we were ordered to fly over Germany while nasty people on the ground and in the air shot at us. Have we really bred such a generation of wimps? --The Birmingham Post, 13 Novemb...
1984 "We're raising a generation of wimps," said Scoutmaster Aaron Medow, a Miami Beach cardiologist. He has been a Scoutmaster for 16 years. "I've seen the degeneration of motivation, self-sufficiency, maturity. I think if kids stay in Scouting, they're on their way to becoming the way kids were 20 years ago. They could regain what they seem to have lost." --The Miami Herald, 2 December 1984
1971 Macneil, like most joggers, sees the problem in moral, almost apocalyptic terms. "Americans today are soft and lazy," he says. "We drive everywhere rather than walk. Every kid today has a car as soon as he can drive. I had one too, but I still had to walk three miles to school. We're a raising a generation of weaklings." --Irving Daily News, 14 January 1971
1962 Are We Raising A Generation Of Weaklings? --The Buffalo News, 11 May 1962
1957 Are we raising a generation of weaklings? John B. Kelly, a champion athlete and father of Princess Grace Kelly thinks so. American children, according to Mr. Kelly, are in imminent danger of becoming sissies, a nation of flabby, weak-muscled onlookers. --Record-Journal, 6 February 1957
1943 Mr. Findlay also points out that Denmark and Holland used oleomargarine so they could thriftily sell more butter to the English, but he neglects to tell how these countries after a few years of this practice found they were raising a generation of weaklings with poor eyesight and passed laws prescribing that growing children should receive a certain amount of dairy products in their diet. --The Capital Times, 9 August 1943
1939 A little old fashioned stamina is needed. Are we raising a generation of weaklings? And if so, who is to blame? --Hardwick Gazette, 20 July 1939
1928 Psychologist Warns Institute of Public Affairs of Generation of Weaklings --Evening Star, 10 August 1928
1911 A distinguished educator said at the National Educational meeting at Frisco that a child that suffers no hardships is on its way to perdition. As a general statement this is true. A generation of children brought up with no hard row to hoe is bound to produce a generation of weaklings. The children that have gone through the formative period during the last ten years -- with everything provided for them by indulgent and unwise parents -- are handicapped in the race of life by just that much. Believe it. --The Mulvane News, 13 July 1911
1905 Lives Wrecked in Babyhood By George F Butler Parents think it is a terrible thing if their boys smoke cigarettes, but they have allowed habits detrimental to the nervous system from babyhood up that are even worse for the future of the boy than the smoking of cigarettes in his teens. Parents who have perpetually entertained, coddled and diverted their children, who have jumped at their call as to the call of a superior being, are by logic and nature estopped from objecting to the use of coffee and cigarettes, wine or late hours, when the children pass into youth from babyhood and would sti...
1896 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS A Father Who Says We Are Raising a Generation of Weaklings and Ignoramuses. To the Editor of THE TIMES: I do not propose to discuss methods or theories, but I state it as a fact, and challenge anyone to dispute it, that our children are not making the progress that they did under the old system. Boys and girls at 15 do not now know as much as boys and girls at 13 did 10 years ago. While the doctrinaires are theorizing and preaching fads, we are raising a generation of weaklings and ignoramuses. The weaklings are those who are breaking down under their desperate efforts...
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