{"product_id":"soft-americas-kids-are-entitled-fragile-and-helpless-and-its-our-fault","title":"Soft: America's kids are entitled, fragile, and helpless. And it's our fault.","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSomething went wrong.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNot with our kids. With us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe raised a generation of children who cannot take direction, tolerate failure, manage money, cook a meal, make a doctor's appointment, or sit with discomfort long enough to learn anything from it. We gave them trophies for showing up, negotiated their grades, fought their battles, smoothed every edge, and called it love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt was not love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt was fear. Guilt. Exhaustion. The desperate need to be liked by the people we were supposed to be leading.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd the result is a generation that is entitled, fragile, and helpless in ways that are entirely predictable and entirely our fault.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoft. is the book that says what every parent already knows but nobody wants to say out loud.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSydney Schiller Nicholson is not a therapist, a researcher, or a parenting expert. She is a single mother who worked two jobs, raised two daughters, made mistakes she caught almost immediately and kept going anyway. She is someone who paid attention. To her own kids. To the kids around them. To the patterns that kept repeating themselves in homes and schools and youth sports and family dinner conversations until the pattern was impossible to ignore.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat she observed is this.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe are not raising children. We are managing them. And the difference is costing them everything.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoft. takes on the culture of over protection chapter by chapter. The chores nobody does. The consequences that evaporate. The participation trophies. The grades negotiated upward. The screens handed over for twenty minutes of quiet. The money that appears without being earned. The food that entertains instead of nourishes. The parents who perform confidence about kids they have not actually looked at closely in years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd then it turns the mirror around.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBecause the reader who has been nodding along about everyone else's kids is going to recognize themselves somewhere in these pages. And that recognition is the whole point.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book is not about raising perfect kids.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is about raising capable ones.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKids who can handle difficulty before difficulty becomes expensive. Who know what they are made of because they were allowed to find out. Who show up for the world because they were taught that they are part of it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKindness and resilience. Together. In the same person.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBuilt by someone who loved them enough to require something of them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat is what this world actually needs from the next generation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd it starts with parents who are willing to stop being comfortable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoft. is the parenting book that does not let you off the hook.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou were not looking for easy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou were looking for honest.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHere it is.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45915633746111,"sku":"f220ac80-501f-44d4-8648-81d874227ac2","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/2da66ff46b30ade6373d6be21d326aa3.jpg?v=1785081117","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/soft-americas-kids-are-entitled-fragile-and-helpless-and-its-our-fault","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}