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    Coddling campus crybabies: Students take up toddler therapy after Trump win

    Teddy bears, Play-Doh and coloring books are staples of nursery schools, but now they are showing up on college campuses to help distraught students cope with the election of a president they don’t like.

    Around the nation, students are turning to the tools of toddlers as a bizarre form of therapy in the wake of Donald Trump's election last week. Colleges and universities are encouraging students to cry, cuddle with puppies and sip hot chocolate to soothe their fragile psyches, an approach some critics say would be funny if it weren't so alarming.

    “This is an extreme reaction from millennials who are being forced to come to terms with the fact that we have a president that they don’t like –this is what losing feels like,” Kristin Tate, the 24-year-old author of "Government Gone Wild," told FoxNews.com. “We are grooming our students to be sensitive crybabies when we need to be showing students how to deal with world situations and how to be adults –there are no ‘safe spaces’ in the real world.”

    Among the top-notch schools sending devastated students back to their early childhood:

    • Cornell University recently hosted a “cry-in,” complete with hot chocolate and tissues for disappointed Hillary Clinton supporters.
    • University of Pennsylvania brought in a puppy and a kitten for therapeutic cuddling.
    • Tufts University held arts and crafts sessions for students.
    • University of Michigan Law School scheduled an event for this Friday called “Post-Election Self-Care With Food and Play” with “stress-busting self-care activities” including coloring, blowing bubbles, sculpting with Play-Doh and “positive card making.”
    • University of Michigan spokesperson Kim Broekhuizen told FoxNews.com the law school was providing these programs based on requests from the students on campus. But on Thursday, following media scrutiny, the event was scrubbed from the school’s website and replaced with a more age-appropriate discussion of the “limitations of executive power.”



    ...At University of Michigan-Flint, students are able to visit “safe spaces” and receive counseling for their post-election needs, a program that Business Professor Mark Perry called “disturbing.”

    “Institutions of higher learning have gone from being places that might be described as ‘intellectual boot-camps,’ where [students] are challenged with a diversity of new ideas, to being places that might now be, more accurately, described as ‘kindergartens’ for adults where they are no longer challenged, but instead treated as fragile, intellectual children and coddled with a ‘safe place’ response to anything challenging or unsettling,” Perry, who also is a scholar at The American Enterprise Institute, told FoxNews.com.

    Discussion and debate is certainly more in keeping with academic tradition than coloring books. But one BU student told FoxNews.com that a Nov. 9 email from the University, titled “Tips for engaging in self-care,” sent the wrong message.

    “It is crazy that the school is handling the outcome of an election more than a serious terror attack,” the student told FoxNews.com. “We didn’t get a ‘self-care’ guide during any of them –not even after Paris last November while I was studying abroad...”

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/17...trump-win.html

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    think we should reinstitute the draft..like Israel, make them all serve at least a year..2 would be better

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quest View Post
    think we should reinstitute the draft..like Israel, make them all serve at least a year..2 would be better
    That might just do it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quest View Post
    think we should reinstitute the draft..like Israel, make them all serve at least a year..2 would be better
    When I was a teenager, every male was conscripted for a year. One could get away from that for physical or psychological reasons though and a lot of people did. The mentioned crybabies would probably turn into experts on how to do that within a week of hearing about being conscripted.

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    It's my generations fault. We coddled these kids, wouldn't let them out of the house without an escort, kept them safe from every boogeyman, real or imagined. We fussed over every boo-boo, we railed against every teacher who gave them a C, we cushioned every blow, we championed every dream, even if it was unrealistic. Now, we make fun of their softness. We failed this generation. These kids have nothing to do. They don't work (still holding out for that dream job.) They don't live on their own. The saying that "idle hands are the devil's workshop" couldn't be more true!

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    So....... I have this guy on "show first" in my FB news feed. The video in this article has had over 18 MILLION views. If you haven't liked his page yet, you need to. This Vid also got him a spot on Fox and Friends this week.

    http://www.angrypatriotmovement.com/...wn-protestors/

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post
    So....... I have this guy on "show first" in my FB news feed. The video in this article has had over 18 MILLION views. If you haven't liked his page yet, you need to. This Vid also got him a spot on Fox and Friends this week.

    http://www.angrypatriotmovement.com/...wn-protestors/
    It would be funny if it wasn't so true and sad. Here's the link to the FOX story: http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/10/0...apologetically And here's a video of the appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aim1K0NBWQk

    Here's his Youtube channel:

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCR...mDi3JtA/videos

    You have a link to his page since you want us to 'like' it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    It would be funny if it wasn't so true and sad. Here's the link to the FOX story: http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/10/0...apologetically And here's a video of the appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aim1K0NBWQk

    Here's his Youtube channel:

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCR...mDi3JtA/videos

    You have a link to his page since you want us to 'like' it?
    He's pretty easy to find. But here's the link, since you insist. He has nearly a million followers.

    https://www.facebook.com/watchchad?fref=ts



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    think we should reinstitute the draft..like Israel, make them all serve at least a year..2 would be better
    I was thinking of something similar along those lines too, if nothing else perhaps something like a manditory 6 month boot camp type program to harden those soft 'safe place' devotees up.

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