What Two Presidents, Eight Road Trips, and My Son Taught Me About a Parent's Expectations
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"[A]n eloquent, brave, big-hearted book…about the timeless anxieties and emotions of parenthood, and the modern twists thereon.” —James Fallows, The Atlantic Love That Boy is a uniquely personal story about the causes and costs of outsized parental expectations. What we want for our children—popularity, normalcy, achievement, genius—and what they truly need—grit, empathy, character—are explored by National Journal’s Ron Fournier, who weaves his extraordinary journey to acceptance around the latest research on childhood development and stories of other loving-but-struggling parents.
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Some interesting insights and presidents' trivia
But especially at the end it reads too much as though the author is trying to convince himself and the readers that he wasn't an awful father - which indeed he wasn't , but it's not pleasant to read something like that, sort of personal and humiliating...