A Schizoid at Smith: How Overparenting Leads to Underachieving

WHEN STRIVERS SPAWN SLACKERS.

Strange as it may seem, some status-seeking parents actually sabotage their children's chance of success.

Early disparagement imprints lifelong low self-esteem, a social phobia impairing concentration along with a stultifying dread of authority figures. An overall shoddy rearing-style that ensures educational and professional disappointment nowhere near approximating those lofty aspirations. Genius or genes doesn't factor so much as the fundamental influence of c...