A nation of wimps : the high cost of invasive parenting / Hara Estroff Marano.
2008
HQ755.8 .M355 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
A nation of wimps : the high cost of invasive parenting / Hara Estroff Marano.
Author
Marano, Hara Estroff.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780767924030
0767924037
0767924037
Publication Details
New York : Broadway Books, c2008.
Language
English
Description
307 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
HQ755.8 .M355 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.874
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-298) and index.
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Table of 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.
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.