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Challenging Children

We Are Not Saved

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Challenges You Can't Avoid

Lukanoff and Hayte make the case that college students and humans in general are anti-fragile. Exposure to stress and suffering makes them stronger up to a point. The fight is over where to draw the line. What sorts of stress and suffering should be put in the beneficial bucket? And beyond that under what circumstances the parent should be empowered to put a challenge in bucket two when the child really wants it to be in bucket three, they say.

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