A nation of wimps : the high cost of invasive parenting / Hara Estroff Marano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marano, Hara Estroff.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parenting--United States.

Parenting.

United States.

Child rearing--United States.

Child rearing.

Parent and child--United States.

Parent and child.

Physical Description:

307 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Broadway Books, [2008]

Summary:

There is a mental health crisis on college campuses these days, with alarming numbers of students engaging in self-destructive behaviors like binge drinking and cutting or disconnecting through depression. This is the first book to connect the dots between overparenting and the social crisis of the young. Psychology expert Hara Marano reveals how parental overinvolvement hinders a child's development socially, emotionally, and neurologically. Hothouse parenting has hit the mainstream--with disastrous effects. Parents are going to ludicrous lengths to take the lumps and bumps out of life for their children, but the net effect of parental hyperconcern and scrutiny is to make kids more fragile. Children become overreactive to stress because they were never free to discover what makes them happy in the first place. When the real world isn't the discomfort-free zone kids are accustomed to, they become subject to anxiety disorders or worse.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Welcome to the hothouse

Rocking the cradle of class

Parenting to perfection

We're all Jewish mothers now

Cheating childhood

Meet mom and dad, the new hall monitors

From scrutiny to fragility

Crisis on the campus

Arrested development

Born to be stressed

Whose shark tank is it, anyway?

Class dismissed

We didn't get here by rocking the boat

What parents can do for their kids.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-298) and index.

ISBN:

9780767924030

0767924037

OCLC:

167763988

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