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Child of Success Syndrome: Why the Children of High Achievers Struggle - and What Research Tells Us to Do About It

by Katherine Bell
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798258328205
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 102
  • Original Price: GBP 11.08
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 146 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Parenting / General

Why do so many children of successful parents end up struggling?

It is the quiet paradox of modern family life. The children of doctors, founders, executives, and academics - the kids who grew up with every advantage their parents fought to provide - are showing up in therapists' offices, rehab centers, and adult bedrooms at rates that should disturb us. National data now classifies students at high-achieving schools as an at-risk population, alongside children affected by poverty and trauma. The reasons are not what most parents assume.

Drawing on twenty-five years of research by psychologist Suniya Luthar and others, The Quiet Weight of a Successful Parent explores one of the most important and least-discussed patterns in developmental psychology: the specific, identifiable ways that success - when passed from one generation to the next - can quietly undermine the very children it was meant to protect.

Inside, you'll learn:

- Why 70% of wealthy families lose their wealth by the second generation - and why the financial collapse is usually a symptom of something that happened years earlier in the home.

- The two parenting variables that, more than any others, distinguish the children who thrive in successful families from those who don't - and how to build both into daily family life.

- Why "snowplow" and "helicopter" parenting produce the same outcomes despite looking completely different - and the simple shift that replaces both.

- The difference between a Builder, a Steward, and a Beneficiary - and how to raise a child who inherits your disposition, not just your money.

- Specific conversations to start tonight, organized by your child's age - from four-year-olds to adult children - that begin to undo the patterns before they harden.

This is not a book about being less successful. It is not a book about self-blame. It is a clear-eyed, research-grounded look at a problem most successful parents can feel but can't name - and a practical path out of it.

For any parent who has ever watched a child struggle to find their footing and wondered, quietly, whether their own success is part of the reason why.

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