@article{327240,
      recid = {327240},
      author = {Marano, Hara Estroff.},
      title = {A nation of wimps : the high cost of invasive parenting /},
      publisher = {Broadway Books,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {307 p. ;},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/327240},
}