“It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don’t want to put them in a position to fail.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 92
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