Topic > Essay on Overprotected Parents - 934

Often as parents we create more problems for our children by not letting them down or making them feel unhappy. Dan Kindlon, a child psychologist and professor at Haarvard, warns against what he calls our "discomfort with discomfort" in his book Too Much of a Good Thing Raising Children of Charter in an Indulgent Age. "If children can't experience painful feelings, Kindolon told me when I called him not long ago, they won't develop 'psychological immunity.'" (The Atlantic