Posts tagged with: emotional-development
Redefining “Success” to Raise Healthier, Happier Kids
Sadly, "high stakes" and "high pressure" aptly describe the high school and college application/ admission experience for most teens today. more
Pressured Parents, Stressed-out Kids: Dealing With Competition While Raising a Successful Child
by Wendy S. Grolnick, Kathy Seal
Hey! Parents! Leave them kids alone!
As a generation, parents today love to interrogate their own and their children’s feelings. "Back off!" warns Harvard psychologist Richard Weissbourd. more
The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children’s Moral and Emotional Development
by Richard Weissbourd
Richard Weissbourd, psychologist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, asserts that parents today are living in a “psychotherapeutic age. We are the generation that talks more about our feelings... more
Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie
by Norton Juster
Norton Juster’s sequel to his award-winning The Hello, Goodbye Window, is just as adorable a story as the first one, and presented in the voice of the same little... more