Too Much of a Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age

A thought-provoking guide is filled with a wealth of information for raising well-balanced children in an age of increasing wealth, where we give too much and expect too little, by identifying the "Seven Sins of Indulgence"--Disrespectfulness, Goal-lessness, Narcissism, Naivete, Amorality, Inability to Tolerate Boredom, and Underachievement. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., teaches psychology at Harvard University, where he has been a faculty member for the past seventeen years. The co-author of Raising Cain, a New York Times bestseller, he lives in Boston with his wife and two children.