How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
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How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
In order to help children make the most of their education, parents must begin to relinquish control and focus on three goals: embracing opportunities to fail, finding ways to learn from that failure, and creating positive home-school relationships
Jessica Lahey • The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
Why Ignoring Your Children Will Make Everyone Happier: Or, What to Neglect When You're Neglecting
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Overparenting negatively affects students motivation and learning abilityOverparenting is being ‘over-directive’ – giving every instructive step along the way. Children of over-directive parenting give up on problem-solving much quicker
Jessica Lahey • Jessica Lahey on Parenting, Desirable Difficulties, The Gift of Failure, Self-Efficacy, and The Addiction Inoculation (#553)
If we want to raise confident and capable kids, we have to stop rescuing them every time they encounter a problem. We have to give them the opportunity to think things through, come up with solutions, and solve the problems they encounter without us getting in their way.
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thewilldernessfamilyinstagram.comWhy did parenting change from preparing our kids for life to protecting them from life, which means they’re not prepared to live life on their own?