An increase in infections among "scene" kids.

[savethewave]

My mom is a pediatric nurse, and has noticed that among Caucasian, middle-class teenagers, there is a dramatic increase in staphococcus infections, especially around recent body modifications. We got to talking about why, and this was my theory. I presented it to the doctors at the office, and they agreed. Cool

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[anonymous]

Eww.

[savethewave]

If you ever go to a show that kids like this go to, you have a good chance of seeing big pockets of these kids with runny noses, coughs, and infected-looking skin around their visible mods and recent tattoos.

[mastercontrol20]

Whoa. Really? Never ever noticed. Now I am inspecting all belly button rings for infectious redness.

[savethewave]

Next time, look around. A great many kids have never learned patience or objectivity, because their parents protected them from all harm.

Take a look, for example, at how parents pushed the people who run things like team sports, to force them to have leagues where no score is kept, where "everyone is a winner," and mediocre players are not cut from the team, to perhaps do something that they might be good at instead. The kids are protected from disappointment in the short term, only to never learn coping strategies in the long term.

Because these kids are indulged in many other ways, they never learn patience or self-restraint, turning themselves into a patchwork quilt pierced with metal in very short periods of time, instead of over many years, which is what should be done.

[mastercontrol20]

Damn straight, boss man. We are a culture that coddles our children while at the same time forcing all kinds of rules on them and also shrinking their childhood and innocence period to a shorter and shorter span.