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Adam England

Do you want an over-achiever or a 'healthy achiever'? If you 'hold your kid back' you're a more successful parent than most, according to a Harvard-trained expert

Teenage girl stressed studying with laptop on bed.

Stopping our children from taking part in too many classes and extracurriculars can be a good idea, a parenting researcher says. 

As parents, we all want our children to reach their full potential, but it can be difficult to know if we’re doing the right thing. With trends like sturdy parenting and lazy parenting being hotly debated, and plenty of discussion around how to raise confident kids, too, which techniques and styles are the best?

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