Our Poor Rich Children. How to Correct Parenting Mistakes

We increasingly hear that the current generation is very different from previous ones. Children are growing up passive, lazy, mercenary, ungrateful, and completely unadapted to life. They want nothing and are unable to set goals, cannot endure the slightest disappointment, and find it difficult to establish relationships.

The "silver spoon syndrome" used to apply only to wealthy families, but today it also affects the middle class. Parents strive to give their children maximum opportunities and provide everything for them, but their efforts do not yield the desired results.

Psychology professor, coach-consultant to the top executives of Russian business, and mother of three children Marina Melia helps to understand where modern parents go wrong. In the updated third edition of her book, she shows how the conditions of material abundance in which children grow up affect their development, details ways to improve the situation, and offers specific, proven recommendations from her own practice.