Never Enough: When Achievement Culture B

Discussion was actually substantial with useful information and advice. Balanced viewpoint. Great flow. Only 85% was book, the rest was citations and notes.

This is a book recommended by my friend. I have not finished reading it, but I feel it's a great book from the part I already read. I will finish it and I think it will help me to better educate my kids.

Fabulous and a must-read for all parents of children under 18! While I think most of us can deduce that raising our children in a college focused pressure cooker is not heathy or ideal for anyone involved, the prescription laid out in this book was truly eye-opening and will reframe how I think about parenting my girls going forward. If only I could rewind, there are many things I would want to do differently to ensure that my kids know that they matter and feel that they are living with a purpose that includes not only their success, but the success of their family, friends, and community. And none of that success needs to include acceptance to an Ivy League school!

This book is a real wake up call and should be a must read for parents (and maybe kids too). Children are suffering and Breheny-Wallace gives parents a window into what's really going on. Once I started reading, I could not put this book down - it's a perfect balance between thorough research and incredibly engaging writing. Breheny-Wallace also gives parents real strategies to help kids deescalate their stress and distress. The concept of Mattering resonates deeply and we should be talking a lot more about it, not only in middle and high school, but into young adulthood as well.

in today's fast-paced world, the concept of hustle and grind is so glorified that it's almost sacrosanct to say otherwise. However, when this idea seeps into our personal lives and spills over into parenting, then that becomes a problem. For many parents, wanting their children to have the best of everything is instinctual, but it has reached a point where parents are pressuring their kids to excel in everything, much to the detriment of the child's psyche, the parent-child relationship, and importantly, parents may be pushing their children to adolescent burnout without know it, all the while guilt-tripping their child into doing more, doing it faster, and doing it even better, when perhaps the child has already switch-off and tuned out. This book by Jennifer Breheny Wallace is such a godsend. The author goes into such detail to share so many anecdotes that in a way, it seems that she is telling the reader that, yes, it's real, and it's ok to do some self-reflection and realize that what matters the most, is to ensure your child knows that it is them that matters the most. Not their achievements and accolades, but them as a person. Sounds cliche, but it's so true. Bravo to Jennifer Breheny Wallace for this timely book. We can only hope more people read this book.