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TEACUP

teacup: translation

n.
A college student with a fragile, easily shattered psyche. Also:teacup kid.
Example Citations:
Toughen up,teacup. No matter how brilliant you think you (and your argument) may be, the day will come when you will be told in no uncertain terms that you are laughably wrong. Will you cry? ...
It's bad enough that theteacupsthink, feel and act as they do. That the rules of the lawprof game are to encourage thisteacupbehavior is absurd.
—Scott H.Greenfield, " Law School Lessons: TheTeacupRule: http://blog.simplejustice.us/2010/05/04/law-school-lessons-the-teacup-rule.aspx,"Simple Justice, May 4, 2010
In the US, Skenazy says helicopter parenting has led to a generation of young adults so fragile they are known as "teacupkids'.
—Judy Skatssoon, " The perils of parenting: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/the-perils-of-parenting/story-fn6bmfwf-1225932554269,"The Telegraph, October 1, 2010
Earliest Citation:
Bright college freshmen arrive on campus as ..."teacups"—sophisticated but overprotected ... says Wendy Mogel, author of "The Blessing of a Skinned Knee," which is among the best-selling of a wave of new books about pressure.
"Theteacupsbreak because they literally don't know when to eat, and what to eat and when to sleep," says Mogel, a Los Angeles psychologist.
—Jennifer Sinco Kelleher et al., " Lessons in How to Chill Out: http://articles.latimes.com/2002/apr/17/news/mn-38313,"Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2002
Notes:Related Words:
free-range kid
freshmore
helicopter parent
lawnmower parent
Wikipedia kid
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Education
People
Pregnancy and Parenting

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