This is a book about the unintended consequences of overprotecting our children, of wisdom and its opposite.

Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt cowrite this bestseller. Each brings their own expertise and experience to bare. The organization and flow of the book helped to present three untruths and their effects. With this foundation the authors show recent dramatic events and how we got here, so the reader understands more of the root reasons. The final part of the book offers a path forward. 

I can’t remember who recommended this book to me but I’m really glad they did. This was an interesting reading experience - on many levels including as a parent to a teen daughter. It is well written and worth the honor of being a NYT notable book. I listened on audio and then bought a paper copy for my husband to read. 

The authors chose many (too many to note) wonderful quotes that evoke meaning and illustrate principles well. Here is one of the many I appreciated. 

“Choose not to be harmed, and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.” - Marcus Arelius (quoted in The Coddling of the American Mind)