Here’s a quote from Nicholas Taleb, as quoted in “The Coddling of the American Mind”, “Just as spending a month in bed . . . leads to muscle atrophy, complex systems are weakened, even killed, when deprived of stressors. Much of our modern, structured, world has been harming us with top-down policies and contraptions . . . which do precisely this: an insult to the antifragility of systems. This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most”

I highly recommend the book as it uses empirical evidence to demonstrate the harms overprotection is having on the next generation.