Grit

The world needs more free range kids. There are a lot of protective parents, keeping a close ye on their children. Parents that keep their kid from living, in a sense, and making there own mistakes. Time and time again we can see it, that kid that just graduated high school, went off to college, or joined the military, or got a job for the first time, and we see it instantly, they fail. They have no challenge until it hits them in the face. Large is right, the kids who aren’t faced with the right amount of adversity fail. Large states “Too much adversity is bad, but so is too little, which doesn’t allow a child to build grit.” If a child sees nothing but failure, and doesn’t learn to overcome it, that negative stigma will be all they know, and then it is just the opposite with a kid that only knows success will not be able to deal with failure when it inevitably occurs. Teaching children the moral ins and outs of the fabric of society, how to deal with its many problems and faults, is not tested, and is therefore often skipped in early development. We owe it to ourselves to tech this important lesson to todays youth.