"The rise of helicopter parenting, the ubiquity of safety warnings, and the explosion of parenting books all signaled a new ideal: children must be protected not just from physical harm but from emotional discomfort..." The very challenges that will lead to maturity and resilience.

Have we protected them from growth? It appears that the more we protected them, thr more fragile and angry they became. This has led me to wonder, if we all fear and resent the source of our most unpleasant experience, and if we were generously protected, won't that source of unpleasantness always be our parents, since there is no experience more difficult in our whole emotional history? Is it all relative? Is this why people who grew up with truly difficult circumstances across the board are less likely to harbor anger toward their parents?