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Psychological self. they're sort of as i say in the book existentially impotent. they've never been allowed to think outside the box. they don't know how to be creative. >> my very favorite chapter is called normalized struggle. i have told the story many times with my dad always signed our birthday cards even at 4, 5, 6 years old, the struggle continues. we all turned out okay as it turn out. i think everybody is going to hang out because up next breaking ground while up on your toes. we're calling this one dance, dance revolution. these guests are staying.

Approval and direction and protection this college and the world of work. >> just earlier maria was saying the brains of toddlers and of teens are not unalike, and when you say that we looked at each other because both of us are living the life of having toddlers and teens and both my 18-month-old and my 13-year-old are like get off me. i can do it myself. right? it's tough as a parent to nurture that instead of saying, no, no no let me tie that for you. let me get that for you. >> melissa, when i was a freshman in stanford too many students weren't trying to get their parents off their backs....

The hard work. >> what are the negative consequences of that? >> well there are three. number one, kids today -- and let me back up and say -- >> kids today. >> kids today in communities of affluence, let's acknowledge right from the get-go this is happening in middle and upper class families where parents have disposable time and income to spend on cultivating their kids' every existence. and i've forgotten your question. >> what the effects are. >> and i'm also a parent so this book says you should raise your child as if they are to be limitless, which resonates with the book incredibly well...