So, the question is: Is the lack in our young adults all the parents' fault? Mainstream media is great at pointing the finger in that direction. Based on my years of educational research, I believe that it’s not one party’s fault, rather it’s a definite combination.
The education system has continued usurping how a family lives, learns, believes and acts. Think about how, over the past 20+ years, the U.S. Department of Education has tried to ‘co-parent’ our own children! In more recent years, the word play has shifted from ‘ambassadors’ to “family engagement”. 1 Either way, nowhere in the US Constitution was it ever stated that We the People wanted our government to ‘co-parent’ with us! The ‘sales pitch’ for ‘engagement at a family level: “student success”! It also has led to MTSS (Multi-Tier Support Systems), part of the encircling of the nanny state over the family so that, after all, Johnny and Suzy can learn what the system wants them to. This has been tagged as ‘whole child learning’ and isn’t about imparting knowledge so much as it’s about mind manipulation. Consider the fact that ‘critical thinking’ isn’t kept at an age appropriate level (high school), but is being inserted into Kindergarten, well before the brain’s natural maturation process is ready for such complexities. Don’t gloss over the supposed goal of this shift, either. It’s all about collectivism, not individuality! It’s about grooming people into becoming comfortable with living in a ‘nanny state’ where the government is not only your provider of where you live, what you eat, but also becoming your parents!
While the term “Peter Pan Syndrome (PPS)” first surfaced in 1983, the ideology has also gone on to include “Wendy”. What does this mean? The author (Dr. Dan Kiley) of the book 2 about PPS first focused on the male population as not able to communicate/commit to a relationship/difficulties in holding down a job, etc. He also wrote about how women can also be just as vulnerable to some of the same issues.