{"title":"A Nation of Wimps by Hara Estroff Marano (Book Excerpt)","authors":"Dan Delulis","doi":"10.7290/jasm01hd2u","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The following is an excerpt from author Hara Estroff Marano’s widely acclaimed book A Nation of Wimps , which describes the hothouse of modern childrearing in which parents undermine their children’s success and short-circuit necessary brain development by incorrectly defining success and removing junctures of failure for their children. Read more about the book at www.nationofwimps.com.","PeriodicalId":43607,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Sport Management","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2009-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Applied Sport Management","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7290/jasm01hd2u","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The following is an excerpt from author Hara Estroff Marano’s widely acclaimed book A Nation of Wimps , which describes the hothouse of modern childrearing in which parents undermine their children’s success and short-circuit necessary brain development by incorrectly defining success and removing junctures of failure for their children. Read more about the book at www.nationofwimps.com.