Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Poor Sense of Touch
--Jay at 09:05 AM--
I know, I know; it’s a losing battle, but this drives me crazy.
I was reading this article, instead of finishing my Hell’s kitchen happy dance post, and came across this paragraph:
Behold the wholly sanitized childhood, without skinned knees or the occasional C in history. “Kids need to feel badly sometimes,” says child psychologist David Elkind, professor at Tufts University. “We learn through experience and we learn through bad experiences. Through failure we learn how to cope.”
Which totally derailed me from my reading as I exclaimed “no, they don’t need to feel badly, they need to feel fucking bad!”
I will never ever in my life feel badly unless I get some serious dermal nerve damage.
May the sense of touch be with you.