What’s wrong with parents today?.
We try too hard. We are so anxious for our children to be successful, to be good athletes or musicians, to get into good colleges and to have good careers and to be happy that we overreach and plant the seeds of incompetence, frustration, unhappiness, even mental and emotional disorders. That’s the sobering news from the latest crop of books on parenting.
Carl Honore, author of “Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children From the Culture of Hyper-Parenting” (HarperOne, $24.95), says he was inspired to take on the topic when he saw himself becoming one of those parents. At a parent-teacher conference, his 7-year-old’s art teacher told him that his son was “incredibly imaginative,” that he was indeed “a gifted young artist.” :Link to read more
Source:The Hartford Courant via American Psychological Association
