A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting. Hara Estroff Marano

A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting



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Publisher: Crown Archetype
Language: English
Page: 320
ISBN: 0767924037, 9780767924030

From Publishers Weekly

Marano, editor-at-large at Psychology Today and author (Why Doesn't Anybody Like Me? A Guide to Raising Socially Confident Kids), takes a penetrating look at the growing trend of invasive parenting. Marano likens many parents to hovering helicopters or snowplows trying to remove all obstacles. The unfortunate result is that children become increasingly fragile, unable to make decisions or cope with failure. Interspersing her text with interviews from experts and cutting-edge research, Marano follows the trail from heavily programmed preschoolers and overprotected grade school kids to stressed out, overachieving high school students and dependent college kids caught in a rising campus mental health crisis (thanks to cellphones, the new umbilical cord, they carry their parents in their jeans pockets). Rather than helping children to find success and happiness, the author argues, this over-involvement has exploded into a generation of infantilized wimps who can't handle everyday life. Instead, she advises, help your kids fail—more is learned from mistakes than from success, including critical thinking skills. The book is chock-full of fascinating information, some of it controversial, such as a suspected link between a diagnosis of ADHD and insufficient free play in the early years. Marano's dire warning to back off will hit a raw nerve with many parents, but her message may come not a moment too soon for their kids. (Apr.)
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Review

"Most of us agree that some parents are overbearing and that their children may be both fragile and burdened as a result. Ms. Marano, you had us at 'wimps.'" —The Wall Street Journal

"A scathing commentary on contemporary parenting." —The Boston Globe


From the Trade Paperback edition.



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