Want your child to be successful? Raise them to be a “healthy striver,” says parenting researcher and author Jennifer Breheny Wallace.
Healthy strivers are resilient and self-motivated to succeed, but who don’t believe that their accomplishments determine their value as people. They stand in contrast to most of today’s teens, who’ve been tossed into a hyper-competitive environment in school, sports and other extracurricular activities, Wallace says — boosting their rates of anxiety and depression.
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