![]() ![]() Children are actually becoming more susceptible to allergic reactions. ![]() Though peanut allergy awareness is up and similar restrictions have been put in place across the country, children have developed peanut allergies at far higher rates than they have in the past. The authors explain that while this sort of restriction-becoming increasingly more common-is well intentioned, it has inadvertently led to even more harm. Haidt tells of his son’s preschool in which the parents were prohibited from bringing peanuts, nuts of any kind, or even dried fruit which may have come into contact with peanuts onto school grounds for fear of causing an allergic reaction (even though none of the students in that class had a peanut allergy). The authors begin chapter one not with a university shout-down anecdote or data from a free-speech survey but with a discussion of childhood dietary restrictions. ![]() Before we can get into how we got here and what needs to be done now that we’re here, we need to understand what the problem is, and that specifically begins with the three Great Untruths. As we delve into Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s The Coddling of the American Mind, we begin by looking at the problem. ![]()
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