A review by carolynf
The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud, Ned Johnson

4.0

Great advice for parents of children ages 8 to 18, plus some bonus advice regarding "failure to launch" kids. Basically home should be a place of calm and support. The college you go to and whether you go to college at all does not matter for long term success and happiness, while piling on AP courses and extracurriculars and using caffeine to get by on four hours of sleep can mess up the brain for life. Kids need to be able to make informed choices about their own lives, but parents should not feel obligated to pay for things that kids are misusing, such as cell phones and video games.