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“We are raising today’s children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs. Instead, we cultivate a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests”, claimed Darrell Hammond, the comedian who set the record for the longest consecutive tenure of any Saturday Night Life cast member in the show’s history. 

I often asked myself: “Is it true that we are so protective in the upbringing of children, to the extent that they all grow up in a bubble wrap and never learn to challenge?”