The Well-Balanced Child

Every parent wants to raise the perfect child: healthy, happy, loved and respected with high achievements and even higher goals. We want our children to “have the things we didn’t have” and to achieve their dreams. This is all well and good, unless we become so focused on our desires for our child that we forget what’s inherently best for the child.

Hyper-Parenting

“Hyper-Parenting” is a phrase that has been coined to describe a dangerous trend in child rearing in middle and upper-middle class homes. In these families, parents become overly involved in every detail of their children’s academic, athletic and social lives. They unnecessarily augment their children’s environment and over-schedule them.

In parents’ heartfelt desire to help children succeed, they hinder the kids by not allowing them to be, simply, children. Read the rest »