focus on resilience wrote:
Fair enough. I think my post was more a response to the catastrophizing of the article than the actual decision of whether or not to play dodgeball. If the local school in my neighborhood simply said "dodgeball does not accomplish the educational and developmental goals that are intended, so we will not the game anymore," that would make complete sense to me and I would support the decision 100%.
But why the hyperbole? Can't we make a rational decision to not play dodgeball without throwing around claims of oppression and acting like being bad at a game is going to make a kid's life crumble?
Oh, I don't think we disagree at all. Parents and educators are throwing around the concept of "trauma" when what they mean is "uncomfortable," and the kids are internalizing this. So, instead of learning to deal with discomfort, kids are conditioned to seek redress for trauma. It surely must be a mistaken goal to try to remove discomfort from childhood. Because there will be discomfort in adulthood.