Urban Baby weighed in today with a great review of A Nation of Wimps. After running some items from the Wimps Checklist, this is what UB had to say:
"Wake up!" says author Hara Estroff Marano, editor-at-large at Psychology Today and mother of two. Her compelling new book, A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting, investigates how helicopter parenting has hit the mainstream - with adverse effects. (By now everyone has heard stories of parents who go on job interviews with their twenty-something offspring - then call HR to negotiate a raise.)
After delving into the what and how of the issue (parental over-involvement, even with the best intentions, hinders a child's development, socially and emotionally), Marano offers guidance on how to be supportive without being overprotective - and how to prepare kids for the real world.
Don't wimp out.
Available online at amazon.com.
"Wake up!" says author Hara Estroff Marano, editor-at-large at Psychology Today and mother of two. Her compelling new book, A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting, investigates how helicopter parenting has hit the mainstream - with adverse effects. (By now everyone has heard stories of parents who go on job interviews with their twenty-something offspring - then call HR to negotiate a raise.)
After delving into the what and how of the issue (parental over-involvement, even with the best intentions, hinders a child's development, socially and emotionally), Marano offers guidance on how to be supportive without being overprotective - and how to prepare kids for the real world.
Don't wimp out.
Available online at amazon.com.
