As a Middle School Teacher, I’m hopeful to see a culture-shift away from this type of parenting for the sake of our country’s children and future.

As a relatively new parent, I’m acutely aware of how easy it is to give in to fear as a motivator of parental guidance…

Can These Parents Be Saved: The Growing Backlash Against Over-Parenting – TIME: “Every teacher can tell the story of a student who needed to fail in order to be reassured that the world wouldn’t come to an end. Yet teachers now face a climate in which parents ghostwrite students’ homework, airbrush their lab reports — then lobby like a K Street hired gun for their child to be assigned to certain classes. “

Great piece that will certainly affect how I teach and how I parent. Science is, after all, built on failure and making mistakes. My students and my daughter don’t do that enough these days.