Teach Your Children Well

I've been an educator for twenty-one years.  Seventeen of those were spent teaching elementary school.  Over the years, I have been very vocal against the idea that all kids get an award.  They get a ribbon for participating, stickers for doing what they are already supposed to be doing, trophies for just showing-up to the soccer game and medals for wiping their butts.

This has created a group of entitled brats whose parents have effectively ruined their children's lives and they don't even have a clue that they've done this.  I call them "helicopter moms", because it is usually the mothers that wreak such havoc on their kids.

A new book, written by Psychologist Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Privilege, brings together cutting-edge research and thirty years of clinical experience that finally proves my point.  It also explodes once and for all the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame.

I recommend this book for all parents to read before they irreversibly screw-up their kid's lives.