The Kids Are Not Alright: Stop Measuring Them All the Time
As a psychologist, Madeline Levine has seen firsthand how children today are unraveling under pressure. In order to “succeed,” children take stimulants to study or cheat regularly to maintain their grades. They also resort to unhealthy ways of coping with anxiety such as substance abuse or self-mutilation. What the heck are we doing to our kids? We are hyper-parenting them. At every level of their educational development we are subjecting them to strict measurements.
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[...] As a psychologist, Madeline Levine has seen firsthand how children today are unraveling under pressure. In order to "succeed," children take stimulants to study or cheat regularly to maintain their… [...]
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10/02/2013 at 15:42