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Kids of Helicopter Parents Are Sputtering Out

By Julie Lythcott-Haims — 2015

Recent studies suggests that kids with overinvolved parents and rigidly structured childhoods suffer psychological blowback in college.

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How Parents Can Ward Against “Imposter Syndrome”

Today in my interactions with college students and young scientists in training, I’m often struck by the limits that they are placing on their own potential by comparing their achievements to those of others.

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Tricia Serio
2016
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College Students and Destructive Perfectionism

Generation Z can struggle to bounce back from the first failures they experience in college. Here's how to help them thrive.

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Joanna Lilley
2019
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15 Famous People Who Picked Careers Their Parents Disapproved Of

Choosing a career isn’t easy, especially when your parents object to your proposed line of work. But sometimes, ignoring their advice and following your dreams can land you in the history books—just like these 15 people who followed their passions and made an impact.

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Nicole Garner
2015
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How to Let Go of the Need for Approval

When we urgently aim to please other people, we’re seeking approval of self from outside sources. And whenever we reach for something in the outside world to give us what we should be giving ourselves, we set ourselves up for disappointment.

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Ilene Strauss Cohen
2018
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Parental Approval and the Adult Child

When adult children feel that their parents do not support them, the pain is evident. And so we have what seems like an enigma: Why seek out connection with parents they’ve specifically defied? Why do these adult children need the approval of their parents even when they don’t agree with them?

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Sara Schapiro-Halberstam
2016
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Advice for Artists Whose Parents Want Them to Be Engineers

How could I come home to my refugee parents, who worked seven days a week in their grocery store, and tell them that I wanted to read Jane Austen and the Romantic poets, and major in English, a language they didn’t speak in their own home?

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Viet Thanh Nguyen
2021
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What to Do When Your Parents Don’t Support You Becoming an Artist

I was one year into my Biology degree when I realized my passion in life was art. However, I knew my parents wouldn’t approve of me being an artist. If you’re on the same boat, keep reading.

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Lucia
2000
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Parental Pressure Takes a Toll on Young Athletes

There is a fine line between parental support and pushiness.

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Robert T Muller Ph.D.
2015
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Youth Sports: The Problem, Say Kids in a New Poll, Is Adults

Youth sports, through the eyes of kids polled by i9 Sports, have a problem: the adults who run them. Eighty-four percent of kids said they either want to or have quit a team, and a third wish adults didn't watch their games because it makes them nervous.

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Peter Zheutlin
2012
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Emma Raducanu Puts Success Down to ‘Very Hard-to-Please Parents’

Eighteen-year-old US Open winner says upbringing has given her mental strength to succeed.

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Sean Ingle
2021
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