The future for non-anxious leadership

Overparenting posses a threat to the development of future non-anxious leaders.
New Yorker's Joan Acocella reviews “A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting” by Hara Estroff Marano, an editor-at-large at Psychology Today.
Money quote: Overparented students who avoid or survive college meltdowns are still impaired, Marano argues. Having been taught that the world is full of dangers, they are risk-averse and pessimistic. (“It may be that robbing children of a positive sense of the future is the worst form of violence that parents can do to them,” she writes.) Schooled in obedience to authority, they will be poor custodians of democracy. Finally—and, again, she stresses this—their robotic behavior will threaten "American leadership in the global marketplace".