Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

by Jennifer Breheny Wallace

To help categorize this behavior, the economists turned to the psychologist Diana Baumrind’s groundbreaking framework of parenting styles, which outlines three main approaches: permissive (which allows room for kids’ freedom and self-discovery), authoritarian (which restricts kids’ autonomy, demanding obedience and a respect for work), and authoritative (which attempts to encourage good behavior through communication and clear limit setting).

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