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Kids Aren’t “Soft.” They’re Untrained. athletes career exploration college college athletes college planning college readiness emotional regulation executive functioning skills high school high school athletes life skills mental performance mindset resilience stress and anxiety students teen mental health Mar 27, 2026

 I keep hearing the same thing: 
“Kids these days are soft.”
“They need to toughen up.”

But here’s the problem -

we’re expecting kids to have skills that are never actually taught.

Let’s Make This Make Sense

If you handed me a calculus exam right now, I wouldn’t suddenly “toughen up” and figure...

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