That’s the title of the latest Malcolm Gladwell piece for the New Yorker. I have long found this a fascinating topic.
Read the article here.
To be continued.
And from next week’s New Yorker: The Child Trap: The rise of overparenting by Joan Acocella
The Uses of Adversity
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