The Atlantic Jessica Lachey Summary

It is natural for parents to worry about the child self-esteem, social development and their future success. According to the article “The Atlantic” by Jessica Lahey, the mother being overprotective was unconsciously harming the ability of the child to accept and understand the failure. She further explains the fact that parents who help a bit too much can potentially ruin the child confidence and the ability to cope with inevitable future setbacks or failures. Many parents have reason to justify their over parenting but what they forget to understand is that failure is an opportunity to get your child to look at him/herself. In the early 90’s from a preschooler to elementary school student, I was very confident and very analytical about