I recently finished reading “The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed” by Jessica Lahey. As soon as I finished the introduction, I knew this book and I were going to be a good fit. I had highlighted most of it 🙂 I’ve noticed one of the quickest ways to get people gabbing is to ask them about their childhood. More specifically, how they were raised and then compare it to… Read more »
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Recent Read: How to Raise an Adult
I recently finished the book, “How to Raise an Adult: Break free of the overparenting trap and prepare your kid for success” by Julie Lythcott-Haimes. As you can probably guess, the book focuses on the effect that our hyper vigilant parenting is having on the generations we are raising. Sometimes books/topics fall into your lap at just the right time. That would be the case with this book. It triggered us to take a candid look at what opportunities we were… Read more »