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Guidance News
Less Stress, More Success
August 2, 2007
BOOK REVIEW
Less Stress, More Success. Marilee Jones & Kenneth Ginsburg.
American Academy of Pediatrics, 2006. $14.95. About 220 pages.
ISBN: 1-58110-230-5.
“American youth have a major problem….They are under such tremendous stress that it’s damaging their physical health and psychological well-being. The pressure from parents and high schools to get into college is producing the most anxious, stressed, sleep-deprived generation ever. This pressure begins at an increasingly early age and threatens individual children as well as society itself. If we don’t change our ways, many of today’s youth may not be equipped to deal with adult challenges because we will have done real harm to their creativity, initiative, and potential to contribute and lead in the world….” (from the Introduction).
If you can see any or all of this happening within your child or to other children, then this book is for you. If you think “pushing” your kids to excel in school and in every activity they’re involved in, then this book is for you. If you believe “free time” is wasted time or your kid “must” get into an elite college, this book is for you, too!
Marilee Jones is the Director of Admission at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that’s MIT, one of the top universities in the world! Marilee writes from the perspective of seeing thousands of applications a year and hundreds of students a year wither from the effects of misguided and misplaced external and internal pressures. Kenneth Ginsburg is a physician who treats kids, victims of upbringings that emphasize perfection and win-at-any-cost ethics. Together, this is their attempt to alert all of us involved with kids of the real dangers of pushing them too hard, too much, too fast, and too early in their lives.
There are three tracks interspersed throughout the book. One track aims at describing the dangers and consequences of unhealthy stress and unrealistic expectations on the physical and mental development of our kids. Another track is directed specifically at parents, offering well-grounded “do’s and don’ts” on a variety of topics ranging from
activities to school work to college applications. The last track is for students and focuses on ways for teens to take control, problem solve, and manage stressors in their lives. All in all, a well researched and very comprehensive presentation aimed at making the college process sane and survivable.
Joe Stehno
Guidance Director
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