As I looked across the room at the parents gathered for the presentation on mental wellbeing in children and teenagers, what I noticed first was how some people were scrupulously taking notes

I admired their grit and determination as for sure, the challenge of how to enable our children to thrive by helping them build mental strength is one of the biggest challenges we face as a society today, especially post the pandemic

All around the world, the headlines inform us that we are all facing a monumental mountain of mental wellbeing issues in young people. We are swapping worrying about whether our kids will get the right grades with worrying about if they will either burnout through the pressure of perfectionism or drop out altogether through the feelings of somehow not fitting in because they aren’t the most successful tiktoker in their class. Yet taken to the extreme – I could also see the perfectionist parenting pitfalls

The piftfalls of seeing our children’s mental wellbeing as y...