Atlantic is contrarian whiners. You know how everyone on DCUM thinks everyone is a moron? The safetyism articles are reminding those morons not to stare at the sun. |
A kid with hyper anxiety can't be magically cured because you wish it so. Meanwhile millions of other kids enjoyed looking at the eclipse safely and didn't burn their eyes being careless. |
Where did the teacher brag that her "teaching prowess" had anything to do with her classes being full? It seemed instead a rebuttal to the post that stated "the schools have been absolutely swarmed with early checkouts." The teacher's post was not at all a jerk response, but yours was. |
+1 the talk of safety and precautions are necessary but then there are the hyper anxious kids (like my son) who will go overboard. It sucks but that’s how he’s wired. |
DP. The hyper anxious kids are often that way because their parents are hyper anxious about absolutely everything pertaining to their child. |
Please please don’t blame mental health issues of kids on parents. They can be genetic. If that were the case our other child would also be hyper anxious and she’s not. She had no issue whatsoever staring at the eclipse with her glasses. |
How many of your kids ended up blind from this?? Just curious. |
None. Because safety was discussed and followed. Kids either only looked with glasses or didn’t look. |
Yawn. Get a life. |
Sorry PP. Our entire society tells kids to be anxious instead of resilient (see: The Coddling of the American Mind). It really stinks when you have kids who are wired that way and then we feed the anxiety beast with everything - like for example the eclipse. A parent might be home encouraging a student that eclipse glasses are safe, and then in school a teacher unintentionally freak the kid back out again. |
I don’t believe the teacher freaked my child out - he freaked himself out. All of us were outside and encouraging him and his own anxiety was a barrier. Eventually he did look up briefly but that was it. I was disappointed. |