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References for this website

Carter, Just Saying No, Psychology Today, 23 January 2006

Cotton, Kathleen, Developing Empathy in Children & Youth, School Improvement Research Series, www.nwrel.org/scd/sirs/7/cu13

Demerath, Peter, The Social Cost of Acting Extra, Educational Policy Research & Administration, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass, 1997

Durant, Steve and Ginsburg, Richard, Whose Game Is It Anyway, (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)

Elkind, David, Ph.D., The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon, (Perseus Books, Cambridge, Mass, 1988)

Faber, Adele and Mazlish, Elaine, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, (Avon Books, New York, 1999)

Friedman, Tom, The World is Flat, (Farrat, Straus & Giroux, 2005) Audiotape

Gamerman, Ellen, Legalized ˜Cheating™", The Wall Street Journal, 21 January 2006

Goleman, Daniel, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, (Bantam Books, New York, 1996)

Gomes, Lee, Some Students Use Net to Hire Experts to Do Their School Work, The Wall Street Journal, 18 January 2006

Hart, Betsy, It Takes a Parent, (G.P. Putnam™ Sons, New York, 2005)

Helicopter Parents Hurting Their Kids

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Living Well: Years of boosting kids' self-esteem may have backfired
Talk to enough adults, say 10 or so, and you will hear mostly that today's kids tend to be rude, self-absorbed and genetically predisposed to electronic toys, gaming consoles and musical devices. Trouble is, talk to 10 kids and you will hear just one or two admit to being spoiled.

* Read the full article at: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/251521_condor12.html

Jones, Ahsby, Law-Firm Life Doesn™t Suit Some Associates, The Wall Street Journal, 2, May 2006

Levine, Mel, Ready or Not Here Life Comes, (Simon & Schuster, 2005)

Levine, Madeleine, Ph.D., The Price of Privilege, (Harper Collins, New York, 2006)

Mogel, Wendy, Ph.D., The Blessings of a Skinned Knee, (Penguin Books, New York, 2001)

The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2006, Harvard Business ReviewFebruary 2006

The 7-Minute Sprint: Can Family Coaches Bring Order?
By: Sue Shellenbarger

My house was falling apart," says Ms. Ryan, an accountant and mother of four children ages 7 through 17 ... The kids schedules were so chaotic that "I was always yelling, 'Hurry, hurry, hurry!" The mess her husband, Derek, acknowledges, was frustrating for him. So, Ms. Ryan did what any modern consumer would: She called a coach.

Read the full article:
The Wall Street Journal
Work & Family Section
Thursday, October 18, 2007

Thompson, Michael, Ph.D., The Pressured Child, (Ballantine Books, New York, 2005)

Wang, Qi, College of Human Ecology at Cornell, as cited in Psychology Today, January/February 2006

Warner, Judith, Perfect Madness, (New York, The Berkely Publishing Company, 2005)

Acknowledgements:
Adapted Interviews (with permission):

Levine, Madeline, The Price of Privilege, Grace Cathedral Interview, Moderated By: The Very Rev. Alan Jones, Dean of Grace Cathedral, www.gracecathedral.org/forum, January 14, 2007

Selected Interviews
Robert F. Bilello, Educational Consultant, Waban, Mass.
Fisher, Marty Mother of 2, Fairfax Public School, Fairfax County, CT
Friedman, Dr. Rochelle, Psychiatrist and Author, Harvard Medical School, Newton, Mass.
McKenna, Ellen Mother of 3
McNamara, Mary Jo, Teacher, Montesorri School, Mother of 2
Hardy, Margaret, Teacher, Preparatory School, Cambridge, Mass.
Keady, Jackie, Mother of 3
Wilde, Kendra, Mother of 3, The Park School, Brookline, Mass
Dr. Rochelle Friedman, Psychiatrist, Harvard Medical School, Newton, Mass
Brooke Wurst, Program Director, Advantage Testing, Test Prep Consultants

College Counselor, Preparatory School, Farmington, Conn.
Teacher, Head of Foreign Language Department, Preparatory School, Cambridge, Mass.

Transcriptions on file for these interviews. Other informal interviews inform this website, but are not recorded.