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Peter Gray's Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem For Colleges

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Peter Gray, Ph.D., a research professor at Boston College, wrote “Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges”. The society we live in is full of parents who are over focusing on their children. It may not necessarily be their fault, but it is society's fault. Parents do not give children the independence they need to be ready for life. Mothers and fathers baby their kids to an extreme. Students cannot handle everyday tasks of becoming an adult. Gray states, “parents are in some ways victims of larger forces in society.”

There has been a significant amount of psychological issues with students. “The rates of anxiety and depression among American college students have soared in the last decade”, according to Gray. This
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