Why Parents Have A Hard Time Allowing Kids To Struggle

The other day I was scrolling through posts on a virtual support group site for parents of students at one of our state universities.  A Mom was asking for advice, on behalf of her son, on how to get him out of a difficult class that he was already struggling with the first week of the semester. There were several comments from other parents, sharing that their kids had also struggled with similar intro-level language classes, and that the best thing to do was have her son drop the campus cou...