The self-esteem trap raising confident and compassionate kids in an age of self-importance
Kids today are depressed and anxious. They also seem to feel entitled to every advantage and unwilling to make the leap into adulthood. As Polly Young-Eisendrath makes clear in this brilliant account of where a generation has gone astray, parents trying to make their children feel special are unwitt...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The trouble with being special
- The roots of the problem
- The importance of adversity
- The necessity of conscience and virtue
- Autonomy and emotional maturity
- The value of being ordinary
- Religion and reverence
- Love and its near enemy
- The truth about happiness.
