"'In our mania to provide emotional life jackets for our kids, helmets and seat belts, approved playground equipment, after-school supervision, an endless stream of evening programming, and no place to hang out but the local mall, we parents are accidentally creating a generation of youth who are not ready for life,' Unger writes."Parents experts seem to have "come out of the woodwork" lately, warning parents that every decision they make could "make or break" their child's self-esteem and or jeopardize their future. Unger has released a book titled Too Safe for Their Own Good: How Risk and Responsibility Help Teens Thrive, in an effort to put some perspective back into parenting. Read more at TheStar.com.
Labels: helicopter_parenting, independence, dependent
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