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How to Raise an Adult — Julie Lythcott-Haims
"Parents need to reassure their children that they will not “die poor and lonely” if they don’t get into honors math, or become school valedictorian, or go to Harvard."
Madeline Levine • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
parents who intervene in tasks their children are performing or could perform on their own, not only limit their child’s ability to perform the task successfully but also cause greater separation anxiety in that particular child.