myths vs. facts

Five Myths About Raising Successful Kids

For Mother’s Day, let’s explore myths about raising successful kids, from the Helicopter Parents who hover over their kids, fixing everything that goes wrong, to the Tiger Moms who dictate to their kids what they should study and how they should spend their time. Margot Machol Bisnow discovered what actually works during interviews with 60 successful entrepreneurs and their moms about how they were raised, as she researched a recently published book, Raising an Entrepreneur: 10 Rules for Nurturing Risk Takers, Problem Solvers, and Change Makers. Here are five myths she shatters in her book: