Nurturing Resilience

Raising children to be competent and caring.
by Michael Ungar, Ph.D.

The risk-taker's advantage

By Michael Ungar, Ph.D. on August 21, 2009 in Nurturing Resilience

What happens when an over-protected and irresponsible child grows up and throws a wild party for 30 friends? You get a trashed house, lies, and an all around lack of commonsense. Such problems are avoidable when we give children early opportunities to experience the risk-taker's advantage. Manageable amounts of risk and responsibility are good for kids. Read More

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Michael Ungar, Ph.D.

Michael Ungar, Ph.D., is a family therapist, a researcher at Dalhousie University, and the author of The We Generation: Raising Socially Responsible Kids.

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