Written by Head of School and MTIPS director, Wendy Calise, this article addresses the pitfalls of overprotective and over-involved parenting.
...How
does that happen? How does a parent get to that point? I can assure you that we
would not find among even the most hardened enablers a parent who would believe
that he will be the one fifteen years from now to call a college professor. But
some of you will. Because once you start doing for your children what they can
do for themselves, there is a tragic feedback loop which receives from and
expresses to both parties, parent and child. The less your child does for
himself, the less you think he is able to do. The less you think he is able to
do, the less he thinks he is able to
do. The less he thinks he is able, the more convincing he becomes to you that
he is not. I am feeling anxious just writing about it...
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