La Greca: Good enough might be enough

La Greca: Good enough might be enough

We live in a culture that sets an impossibly high bar for parenting. There is this quiet pressure that if we make one mistake, say the wrong thing, lose our patience, forget a snack or let a child watch too much TV on the wrong afternoon, we have somehow damaged them forever. Parents are constantly asking themselves: Did I handle that right? Am I doing enough? And children feel that pressure too. I was recently listening to the American Psycholo…