How to raise successful kids -- without over-parenting | Julie Lythcott-Haims
By loading kids with high expectations and micromanaging their lives at every turn, parents aren't actually helping. At least, that's how Julie Lythcott-Haims sees it. With passion and wry...
========== You know, I didn't set out
to be a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not very interested
in parenting, per Se. It's just that there's a certain style
of parenting these days that is kind of messing up kids, impeding their chances
to develop into theirselves. There's a certain style
of parenting these days that's getting in the way. I guess what I'm saying is, we spend a lot of time
being very concerned about parents who aren't involved enough
in the lives of their kids and their education or their upbringing, and rightly so. But at the other end of the spectrum, there's a lot of harm
going on there as well, where parents feel
a kid can't be successful unless the parent is protecting
and preventing at every turn and ...