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Pushed To The Edge: How To Stop The Child Competition Race So Everyone W

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From the Publisher: Parents want their kids to succeed. But in today's hypercompetitive,
high-speed world, too much competition can be dangerous to children's
health...causing mental, emotional, and physical problems. Based on
up-to-date research, this guide helps parents distinguish between
helpful pushing and harmful pressuring. Whether the issue is kids'
sports, body image, extracurricular activities, or academic
achievement, parents can find ways to be supportive and encourage
healthy competition and achievement...as well as teach their child to
resist damaging societal and peer pressure. Pushed to the Edge helps
parents: Nurture their child's uniqueness . Teach the value of
measured risk, Resist the urge to compare their child to others,
Allow their children to do their own homework, Prevent eating
disorders and other emotional problems, Set standards that make
sense, and more. Filled with wisdom and practical advice, this is a
timely guide for parenting today's stressed-out kids, building their
confidence and giving them back the childhood joys that society has
taken away.

I had to force myself to keep reading this book to the end. The main point of the book is to let your kids follow their own interests and be who they want to be - I'm not sure I needed to read a book to learn that. I expected this book to be based on research, but very little (if any) of the book referred to studies. Instead, arguments were laid out as fact, when in truth I personally found the book to be nothing more than the author's opinion (and unsupported at that). The book read like a long, fluffy, trite magazine article. Examples ("case studies"??) often included instances of modeling and plastic surgery, which, while may be commonplace in the author's Beverly Hills neighborhood, are not representative of my neighborhood.