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The Perils of Overprotective Parenting

The Perils of Overprotective Parenting

by Ken Resnick | Oct 14, 2025 | Learned Helplessness, Parent Coaching, Parenting Workshops

Mental health research has increasingly focused on the effects of overprotective parenting, characterized by excessive supervision and protection. A recent qualitative study revealed that 61.9% of children raised in this environment struggle to face challenges, take...
The Fine Line Between Caring and Crippling: Raising Independent Kids

The Fine Line Between Caring and Crippling: Raising Independent Kids

by Ken Resnick | May 5, 2025 | Learned Helplessness, Parent Coaching, Parenting, Parenting Workshops

We all want the best for our children. Our natural instinct is to nurture, protect, and provide. But could our well-intentioned actions sometimes be inadvertently creating a web of over-dependency, ultimately hindering their growth and ability to thrive? The...
Dependency and Learned Helplessness

Dependency and Learned Helplessness

by Ken Resnick | Aug 19, 2022 | Articles, Blog, Childhood Disorders, Learned Helplessness, Parent Coaching, Parenting, Parenting Workshops, School Readiness Assessments

What happens when a child is too dependent on the parent, or an adult to help them with many things? In all my years of assessing and dealing with families who had children that were not doing well at school, or had been diagnosed with some or other disorder, I noted...
Learned Helplessness: A Barrier to Learning

Learned Helplessness: A Barrier to Learning

by Ken Resnick | Aug 17, 2022 | Articles, Blog, Childhood Disorders, Learned Helplessness, Parent Coaching, Parenting, Parenting Workshops, School

During his many years as an educational psychologist, Dr Resnick noticed some commonalities among learners diagnosed with some form of barriers to learning. He found that all of these learners were dependent on some form of help in tasks which they were unsure of,...

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