How to Protect Your Daughter From Frustration and Pain

With most of the families that I see, I never have to say you're not doing enough for your children. With ADP it's a really challenging tightrope walk to figure out how you can protect them from overwhelming difficulty but still allow them to build up their frustration tolerance and learn to creatively problem-solve for themselves. If you intervene too often, intervention becomes part of their definition of love. Not the worst thing to have is part of your definition of love but it creates dependency at the same time.