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Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
Maybe someday
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Readers
69/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Publisher:
Portfolio
Date:
August 22, 2023
Reporter Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture. Drawing on interviews with families, educators, and psychologists, she offers a humane view of the crisis plaguing today's teens and a practical framework for how to help.
What The Reviewers Say
One of the most appealing and encouraging aspects of Never Enough is the author’s warm-hearted enthusiasm for rewriting pernicious norms.
While sympathetically exploring the dimensions of the problem, she also offers some thoughtful approaches to parenting intended to create a more humane, and sane, culture for young people..
Wallace’s sharp analysis illuminates the social and evolutionary pressures that drive achievement culture, and her advice is well observed..
