In 2025, a study found that 77% of Gen Z applicants had brought a parent to a job interview (Fortune.com).

With decades of: sagging educational performance, declining entrance rates to university, high school graduates who can’t read beyond a grade 6 level, a generation of young people who struggle to sign their name, and the breaking of our social fabric and discourse, is it not time we stop the bullshit and recognize that something is seriously broken in the education system?

Generation Coddled analyzes the system’s serious flaws and doesn’t apologize for it. It’s time we look beyond the teachers, administrators, and politicians and include parents & students to recognize that we are in an all-hands-on-deck situation. We keep making things easier, to try and make them ‘fun’, and then wonder why students’ marks keep dropping as young people abandon post-secondary education and reasoned thinking for social media and video games.

In Generation Coddled, Axworthy critically examines society as a whole, the need to understand the science of learning, and calls for the abandonment of the culture of lethargy and what he calls ‘the positive feelings movement’ of education, so that we can rebuild the system on challenge, support, and structure.

If you’re tired of apologists and comfort blankets, then Generation Coddled is for you; all you need to do is choose your favourite medium (e-books, hard copies, or audiobooks) and start on the first page.