How Schools Are Handling An 'Overparenting' Crisis [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 9/1/1512:00 PM

Have you ever done your children's homework for them? Have you driven to school to drop off an assignment that they forgot? Have you done a college student's laundry? What about coming along to Junior's first job interview?

These examples are drawn from two new books — How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims and The Gift of Failureby Jessica Lahey. Both are by women writing from their experience as parents and as educators. Lahey is a middle school teacher and a writer for The New York Times and The Atlantic; Lythcott-Haims was the longtime freshman dean at Stanford.

[For more of this story, written by Anya Kamenetz, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/ed...overparenting-crisis]

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