DEEP DIVE: Jennifer Wallace on Achievement Pressure

Podcast: What Fresh Hell: Parenting, Relationships, and Making Life Better, with Two Funny Moms · Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson

Opublikowano: 2026-08-31

This "Deep Dive" series revisits a few of our past episodes on back-to-school challenges such as the morning rush, school projects which require lots of parental oversight, and how to help our kids navigate intensifying academic pressure. Two recent national studies underlined that there's a surprising group of children at risk for worse mental health outcomes: kids who go to high-achieving schools. How do we protect our kids from the pressures all around them to succeed at any cost? ⁠Jennifer Wallace⁠, author of the book ⁠Never Enough⁠, shows us how to teach our kids that they matter intrinsi...