Parents who do everything raise kids who can't do anything.
More than 40 people, including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, have been charged in a widespread elite college admission bribery scheme. By Amy Joyce Amy Joyce Writer and editor for On Parenting Email Bio Follow March 12 at 6:34 PM It’s appalling. It’s infuriating. It’s gasp-inducing.
“This is the extreme, but that pressure is happening all over the place,” said Jessica Lahey, author of “The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed." Going to college represents “a really important, significant step toward psychological separation from one’s parent,” noted Elisabeth Lamotte, founder of the DC Counseling & Psychotherapy Center. “It’s an important psychological time, and when there’s a hyper-focus on trying to get 20 more points on the SAT, we miss the opportunity to be focusing on what it means to be in that chapter with our children.
“I’m hearing from admissions officers that students are getting to campus and not able to cope,” said Brennan Barnard, director of college counseling and outreach at the Derryfield School in Boston. “Mental health services are exploding on campus. In a lot of ways, that is because parents all of a sudden aren’t there to micromanage.”
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