Alvin Rosenfeld
Bio: Alvin Rosenfeld, M.D., is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard
University Medical School. He has taught at Harvard and Columbia and has
headed the child psychiatry training program at Stanford. Currently, he
divides his time between private practices in New York City and
Greenwich, Connecticut. Dr. Rosenfeld has written four books and over
seventy articles on issues including child abuse, foster care, and
psychotherapy. He lives with his pediatrician wife and three children in
Stamford, Connecticut.
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Hyper-Parenting--the new phrase on every parent's lips--adresses a hot-button issue: the over-scheduling and over-enriching of our children. Lists and schedules, meetings and appointments, the need to be the best no matter what--doesn't it sound like your life? It's not; it's your child's. Parenting today has come to resemble a relentless to-do list. Even parents with the best intentions strive to micro-manage every detail of their kid's life and live in constant fear that their child will under... 
