Jennifer Wallace is an award-winning journalist and author of the New York Times bestselling book Never Enough- When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic - And What We Can Do About It, which was named an Amazon Best Book of the Year. She is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. After graduating from Harvard College, Jennifer began her journalism career in television at "60 Minutes". She lives in New York City with her husband and their three children.
“This deeply reported book is a wake up call for all of us.
Skyrocketing expectations and the unrelenting grind to achieve are
doing immeasurable damage to an entire generation -- but as
Jennifer Wallace persuasively argues, it doesn't have to be this
way.” –Katie Couric
“Recently a sixteen-year old high school student asked me, “Is
achievement the same as success?” I wish I could have handed her
this book. Because if achievement is all you’re chasing, it will
never be enough—but if you matter to your friends, family, and
community, you’ll always feel like a success. Jennifer Breheny
Wallace offers a much-needed perspective on why mattering matters
most.” –Angela Duckworth, New York Times bestselling author of
Grit
“In Never Enough Jennifer Wallace takes up one of the toughest
questions in all of parenting - How do we give kids every
opportunity without asking too much of them? - and delivers clear,
compassionate, actionable answers. Never Enough is more than a wise
and practical parenting book - it’s a pathbreaking introduction to
one of the most powerful ways to protect our children’s mental
health: mattering.” –Lisa Damour, New York Times bestselling author
of Untangled and Under Pressure
“Written with a reporter's eye, a parent's heart, and insights
gleaned from leading experts in psychology and neuroscience, as
well as heart-breaking and heart-warming wisdom from the parenting
trenches, Never Enough is the book for our times. Journalist
Jennifer Wallace offers a fresh and refreshing framework (with
loads of practical advice) to help parents raise children in ways
where healthy, happy and successful aren't tradeoffs. Buy this
book: Help your kids get what really matters.” –Ned Johnson,
bestselling co-author of The Self-Driven Child
“This book will be eye opening - and, honestly, maybe scary - for a
lot of parents. It is also importantly full of solutions. A
necessary read.” –Emily Oster, New York Times bestselling author of
Cribsheet
“Something is deeply wrong when, in a wealthy society, a third of
high school students report persistent feelings of sadness or
hopelessness. An incisive and eye-opening book every parent should
read.” –Scott Galloway, New York Times bestselling author of The
Algebra of Happiness
"Never Enough helps parents of all ages make sense of the
increasingly competitive landscape of today's childhood. Wallace
offers practical, evidence-based solutions for protecting our
children from harmful messages, and guides us in how to preserve
what we really value. What Wallace proposes here is nothing short
of a revolution -- a workable one -- in how we handle achievement
pressure in our homes, our schools and our communities -- that is
to lead with mattering.” –Tina Payne Bryson, LCSW, Ph.D., New
York Times bestselling co-author of The Whole-Brain Child &
No-Drama Discipline
“I love this book! Thoughtfully, expertly and, without judgment,
Wallace guides readers through the stressful terrain of our
achievement culture and offers a more emotionally intelligent route
forward. Like a wise, trusted friend who offers the best
advice, you will find yourself turning to this book time and again
to better understand the world children are growing up in and how
each of us can make it better. Never Enough is a book for parents,
schools and communities, but it’s more than that: it's a primer for
living a rich, meaningful life. What an achievement.” –Robin Stern,
Ph.D, Co-founder and Associate Director for the Yale Center for
Emotional Intelligence
“You know what matters? THIS POWERFUL BOOK. With impressive
research, compassion, and clarity, Jennifer Wallace shows us how
our current equation of raising kids to take our love and return it
as achievement is a recipe for sorrow on both sides and shows us to
readjust that equation, so that joy and growth can
begin.” –Lenore Skenazy, founder of the Free-Range Kids
movement
“A smart take on how parents can help their children thrive without
putting undue pressure on them...Wallace’s sharp analysis
illuminates the social and evolutionary pressures that drive
achievement culture, and her advice is well observed. This more
than makes the grade." —Publishers Weekly
“A timely exploration of adolescent achievement culture…One of the
most appealing and encouraging aspects of Never Enough is the
author’s warm-hearted enthusiasm for rewriting pernicious norms.”
—The Wall Street Journal
"Children today need to see a purpose in their lives beyond their
achievements and need to feel they are important to
others...Perhaps the thoughtful proposals for action in Never
Enough will enable families to take meaningful steps toward that
end." —New York Journal of Books
“If you’ve long suspected there’s something a bit toxic about our
culture of success and striving, this is the book for you. A
fascinating look at affluent communities and what the constant
pressure to succeed and achieve does to kids… Should be a must-read
for every parent that’s ever allowed a focus on grades and college
admissions to overshadow their emotional connection with their
child.” —The New York Post
“Never Enough would clearly be the book I’d put forward for 2023…
The pressure we place on our kids relative to achievement, from
academics to sports, is certainly contributing to what’s referred
to in universities as “an epidemic of anguish.” We all need to
reflect on how we embrace this profound responsibility of allowing
our children to live lives of meaning and purpose.” —Robert
Chapman, CEO of Barry-Wehmiller
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