Raising Resilient Kids
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The recent college admissions bribery scandal is an extreme example of how far some parents will go to pave their kids’ career path, to ensure their future success. Psychologist Dan Gottlieb says it speaks to something else, something much more common: parental anxiety, and the desire to prevent kids from failing.
He discusses this in his weekly conversation with WHYY’s Maiken Scott.
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