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The stress and pressure on parents today is unprecedented. This site provides information and tips to help navigate this stress and make for happy and healthy parents and children. Please explore our site and our newest book:

Pressured Parents, Stressed-Out Kids — Dealing With Competition While Raising a Successful Child

Reassuring and empathic, Grolnick and Seal show parents how to avoid the burn-out — in both parents and children — that afflicts so many in our highly competitive society, while raising children who thrive and excel.

A Review of This Book

"This is a first rate book. Even we sports fans who think competition can be good for kids have to admit that this book illuminates those moments when beating the other kid, or besting the family down the block, is distinctly unhealthy. The advice it offers to parents who feel real pain at such moments, who don't know how to control their own longing to succeed through their children, is the most sensible I have ever read."
--Jay Mathews, Washington Post columnist