he believes his generation and younger, are soft.
18yo has said the same thing previously XD
Is that what stuff is like normally these days? That explains a few things, I think there were a lot of people that considered me borderline neglectful because I was kind of just keeping tabs on things to make sure there wasn't going to be any really major damage/fallout and that base levels of politeness and decency were being maintained but otherwise just let them stuff around and find out.
I remember reading or being told something along the lines of all the monocropping that gets done has depleted the soil of necessary nutrients and minerals and things so even if you ensure healthy diets they're still not as nutritious as food in the past was so that also probably doesn't help.
I think this is good parenting. Low-risk environments where they can play and test themselves. Small hurts, big gains.
I have heard the same about the diets. There are also things like microplastics and other chemicals that likely affect us in unknown ways also. However, that is only part of the excuse, right?
That was exactly the idea.
And yeh the comment about the diets wasn't supposed to excuse the other stuff, I just noted it because you were talking about diets in the unlikely event you hadn't already read/heard about it :)