As a parent, have you ever felt torn between feeling that you should push your kids toward higher levels of achievement, so that they can be successful in today’s world and feeling worried and concerned about the stress and anxiety that they are experiencing?  According to Peter Gray, Boston College psychology professor, many parents do. In his Substack blog, Play Makes Us Human, Gray discusses socially prescribed perfectionism, a kind of perfectionism that is marked by a concern about what others think. Gray argues that the primary issue in socially prescribed perfectionism is the concern that others will think you … Continue reading Socially Prescribed Perfectionism