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How to Land Your Kid in Therapy: Over-Parenting and Its Perils

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By trying to provide the perfectly happy childhood, a generation of parents may be making it harder for their kids to actually grow up. Learn how our preoccupation with choice, self-esteem, and happiness may be yielding a generation marked by entitlement, materialism, narcissism, and an inability to face the challenges of adult life. Speakers: Katie Couric, Lori Gottlieb, Madeline Levine, Polly Young-Eisendrath

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