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I saw this story on the Omamas blog: A talk with Wendy Mogel, author of ‘Blessing of a Skinned Knee.’

The author is giving a talk at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center this Thursday (tomorrow) the 7th.  I hadn’t heard of her prior to reading the post, and I don’t know if I’m going to make it out to the Hillsdale area tomorrow, but based on her advice in the interview, I may very well check out her book.  As a parent, I believe that parents who overparent are worse than parents who underparent.  I think parents who don’t allow their kids to make decisions, who micromanage their kids, and who create an environment of fear, are much worse than parents who simply don’t show up.  I like her quote: “The kids who do best in college are the kids who have life skills and not this fancy academic sophistication.”