Joe PolishFounder of Genius Network and President of Piranha Marketing

How parents are setting up their kids to fail

2 May 2023 · 1 min

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Joe Polish argues that many parents unintentionally 'handicap' their children by making life too easy for them. He claims shielding kids from pain and struggle removes opportunities to build effort, resilience, and growth; parents’ desire to spare children suffering can produce adults ill-equipped to face real-world challenges.

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See, this is an interesting thing for me. I really have to think through this in my book, what's in it for Them? Where there's this line that I really like, which is, blow the handicap your children by making their lives too easy. And we oftentimes want to take away the pain of somebody's or the gift of somebody's suffering. And some people just, you know, there is not stake weight losers. Right. You're not going to put on muscle size without tearing something out. You're going to have to exert effort and tremendous oomph in order to get almost anything done in many arenas. So parents oftentimes don't want their kids to have the life of pain that they had. But then what kind of life do they have? If you try to make everything so easy so.