A generation of ninnies
Are we raising a generation of nincompoops? asks Beth Harpaz of the Boston Globe.
Susan Maushart, a mother of three, says her teenage daughter “literally does not know how to use a can opener. Most cans come with pull-tops these days. I see her reaching for a can that requires a can opener, and her shoulders slump and she goes for something else.”
Teenagers are so accustomed to either throwing their clothes on the floor or hanging them on hooks that Maushart says her “kids actually struggle with the mechanics of a clothes hanger.”
. . . “It’s so all laid out for them,” said Maushart, author of the forthcoming book “The Winter of Ou
