'NATION OF WIMPS' - Psychology Today Tells Us Why Americans are so Feeble


	'NATION OF WIMPS' - Psychology Today Tells Us Why Americans are so Feeble

ianschneider

1-18-2008 4:48 PM

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act your age, act your speed, behavior, timing

ianschneider says:

When I see the desperation with which today's Mommy and Daddy never want to grow up, seeing them play at children's birthday parties, attend not only every game but ever practice, I wonder - what the hell happened?

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