When Students Equate Self-Worth with Academic Achievement, Their Mental Health Suffers—Here’s What Parents Can Do
Students’ tendency to correlate self-worth with achievement—be it academic, athletic, or otherwise—is by now well-documented. This pressure, unsurprisingly, can also negatively impact child-parent relations. Conditional Regard: The Opposite of Unconditional Love One Baylor University study conducted in 2021 found that more than half of the 500 students surveyed believed their parents’ love for them fluctuates […]