Drawing on her experience as Stanford University's dean of freshmen, the author, revealing the harms of over-parenting, offers practical strategies that stress the importance of allowing children to make their own mistakes and develop the resilience, resourcefulness and determination necessary to succeed.

"Los padres de Bruno le quieren mucho, pero tanto le protegen que no le permiten ser él mismo ni divertirse como otros niños. Siempre ven algún peligro. ¿Cómo conseguirá Bruno que le dejen tirarse por el tobogán o saltar en los charcos?"-- "Bruno's parents love him very much, but they protect him so much that they don't allow him to be himself or have fun like other children. They always see some danger. How will Bruno get them to let him...

Daphne Wilder is a mother whose love knows no bounds or boundaries. She is the proud mom of three daughters. There is the stable psychologist Maggie, the sexy and irreverent Mae and the insecure, adorable Milly - who, when it comes to men, is like psychotic flypaper. In order to prevent her youngest child from making the same mistakes she did, Daphne decides to set Milly up with the perfect man. Milly does not know that her mom placed an ad in the...