In TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL, respected clinician and bestselling author Madeline Levine tore down the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame. In READY OR NOT, she takes it a step further to show how these same parenting practices, combined with a desperate need to shelter children from discomfort and anxiety in an ever-changing world, are setting future generations up to fail spectacularly. In recent years, the world as most of us have known it has become disturbing, unfamiliar, and even threatening. In the wake of all this uncertainty, parents are doubling-down on old habits—the pressure-filled, pedal-to-the-metal parenting style that pushes children to excel in all things academic, social, and extracurricular. With her signature sensitive, empathetic, and no-nonsense prose, Levine most poignantly provides big-picture and day-to-day solutions for parents facing this dilemma on how they can reverse course and raise children who are future-proof: prepared, enthusiastic, and ready to face the uncertainty and tumult of the world with confidence.