Raising a Responsible Child:: How Parents Can Avoid Indulging Too Much and Rescuing Too Often

It has often been said: Give a man a fish, and he has food for a day. Teach him to fish, and he can provide for himself over a lifetime.

Raising a Responsible Child explains the phenomenon of the "overindulgent parent"--who helps and protects too much -- and the "underdeveloped child"--who never really learns to stand on his or her own feet.

Today many parents are especially prone to shower their children with love and attention and attempt to minimize stress by doing for them. In the scurry ...