My wife and I were just having a discussion about this sort of thing the other night. Not so much about the time factor, but the impact events like you mentioned can have on you. Trauma is real and it changes your brain. It's pretty much a fact. It's easy to think that kids are coddled and allowed to get away with too much these days, but that is only half the picture. My wife pointed out that sure kids might have been tougher, but they also weren't taught to deal with their emotions from trauma, so they became spouse abusers and addicts. Teaching kids now to deal with trauma is much better than dealing with the consequences down the road.
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I agree that teaching them to deal with trauma is good, but I don't think they are doing that as much as making people feel helpless in the face of it, and blame others. However, I am talking on average and there will always be a sub-group that handle things better.