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The High Cost of Invasive Parenting
Brightwell Publishing
April 2008
On Sale: April 15, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 0767924037
EAN: 9780767924030
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Wake up, America: We’re raising a nation of wimps. Hara Marano, editor-at-large and the former editor-in-chief
of Psychology Today, has been watching a disturbing trend:
kids are growing up to be wimps. They can’t make their own
decisions, cope with anxiety, or handle difficult emotions
without going off the deep end. Teens lack leadership
skills. College students engage in deadly binge drinking.
Graduates can’t even negotiate their own salaries without
bringing mom or dad in for a consult. Why? Because hothouse
parents raise teacup children—brittle and breakable, instead
of strong and resilient. This crisis threatens to destroy
the fabric of our society, to undermine both our democracy
and economy. Without future leaders or daring innovators,
where will we go? So what can be done? kids would play in the street until their mothers hailed
them for supper, and unless a child was called into the
principal’s office, parents and teachers met only at
organized conferences. Nowadays, parents are involved in
every aspect of their children’s lives—even going so far as
using technology to monitor what their kids eat for lunch at
school and accompanying their grown children on job
interviews. What is going on? 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. When the real world isn’t the discomfort-free
zone kids are accustomed to, they break down in myriad ways.
Why is it that those who want only the best for their kids
wind up bringing out the worst in them? 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. A Nation of Wimps 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. Children become
overreactive to stress because they were never free to
discover what makes them happy in the first place. Through countless hours of painstaking research and
interviews, Hara Marano focuses on the whys and how of this
crisis and then turns to what we can do about it in this
thought-provoking and groundbreaking book.
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