Stargoat's Journal: hypersocialization and day care

Does day care lead to a hypersocialization and a decline of the reliance on self? This in turn leads to a decline in the noble self-reliant individual (or even the noble selfism espoused by objectivists) and a rise in the destructively selfish individual. I suggest this hypothesis as I have seen a decline in the self reliance in recent generations and wonder if this is the result of bad upbringings that can be traced to day care.

Could Just As Well Be Barney...

[damn_registrars]

If you are looking at the generation that is currently starting college, it is worthwhile to recall that they were largely raised on heavy diets of Barney on PBS. If ever a show discouraged viewers from taking initiative and forming a personality, it was that one. Those poor kids sat around moping all day until their stupid dinosaur sprung into action, they were more useless than the team at CSI:Miami.

Being as far too many parents used TV as electronic babysitters - keep in mind also the various thing