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Are Americans turning their kids into wimps?

06.25.2008 | 7:12:00 pm | Posted by ParentDish
Filed under: Just for moms, Just for dads, Fun & activities, Health & safety, Development, Life & style, In the news, Environment, Chores, Resources Time Magazine recently interviewed an editor-at-large from popular magazine Psychology Today. The topic? Children, and whether or not we're turning our kids into wimps. Hara Estroff Marano, the interviewee, had much to say on the subject of children, and how we raise them. Marano, who is also a grandmother and author of a new book titled A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting, says we are turning our kids into wimps. She says we ne...
 
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