The Old Schoolyard Toughness Wasn't Abuse — The New Coddling Might Be

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The speaker recounts being told to do his work or get out, with 'yes sir' or 'no sir' as his only options — an experience people now reflexively call abuse. He flips the frame: the kids who are 'interfered with' nonstop by well-meaning adults may actually be the ones being harmed, robbed of the resilience that comes from being left to handle their own struggles.

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