Stop Ruining Your Kids

Stop Ruining Your Kids

A Brutally Honest Guide to ParentingBy Jesse Pham
Michael Caine
Listen with Sir Michael Caine™ and 1,000+ voices
Length5h 8m

About this audiobook

"Stop Ruining Your Kids" is a brutally honest parenting guide that confronts parents about the damage they inflict through projection, control, and ego-driven decisions. The book challenges common parenting mistakes: forcing kids into careers or activities that serve parental egos rather than children's authentic interests, prioritizing prestigious paths over genuine happiness, comparing children to others, and treating kids as extensions of themselves. Through real-world examples and harsh truths, it teaches parents to recognize their children's actual talents and personalities, understand financial literacy beyond income, and ultimately break destructive generational cycles by letting kids become themselves.

Audiobook details

GenreSelf-Help, Education and Learning
Length5 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 23, 2025
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Stop Ruining Your Kids: A Brutally Honest Guide to Parenting
2Introduction
3Chapter 1: The Football Field Tragedy
4Chapter 2: The Medical School Money Pit
5Chapter 3: The Identity Theft
Show all chapters
6Chapter 4: The Ego Pandemic
7Chapter 5: The Gender Insanity
8Chapter 6: The Fear Factory
9Chapter 7: The Status Game
10Chapter 8: Watch, Don't Project
11Chapter 9: The Exploration Phase
12Chapter 10: Aptitude vs. Aspiration
13Chapter 11: The Prestige Trap
14Chapter 12: Stop Comparing Your Kids
15Chapter 13: Stop Being Toxic Parents

More from Jesse Pham

You may also like

Hunger
HungerRoxane Gay5h 58m4.3 (197.4K)$24 · $0.00
Little Altars Everywhere
Little Altars EverywhereRebecca Wells3h 2m3.8 (37.8K)$18 · $0.00
Why Gender Matters
Why Gender MattersLeonard Sax MD, PhD10h 28m4.1 (4.4K)$20
Unfiltered
UnfilteredLily Collins3h 31m4.0 (13.7K)$18 · $0.00
Youth
YouthLeo Tolstoy6h 19m3.8 (5K)$1 · $0.00
The Addiction Inoculation
The Addiction InoculationJessica Lahey8h 29m4.3 (1.3K)$26 · $0.00
Rebel Rising: A Memoir
Rebel Rising: A MemoirRebel Wilson10h 17m4.3 (17.6K)$29 · $0.00
Lone Point
Lone PointGrace Livingston Hill8h 8m4.1 (552)$0.60 · $0.00
Take It from the Top
Take It from the TopClaire Swinarski6h 11m4.3 (614)$24 · $0.00
Take This Man
Take This ManBrando Skyhorse8h 49m3.9 (2.2K)$20 · $0.00
Grown Women
Grown WomenSarai Johnson14h 5m4.4 (5.1K)$33 · $0.00
Small Fry
Small FryLisa Brennan-Jobs12h 1m4.0 (31.8K)$20 · $0.00
Boys & Sex
Boys & SexPeggy Orenstein7h 28m4.3 (8.6K)$24 · $0.00
Short Stories
Short StoriesColumbus Short3h 42m4.2 (2.2K)$15
I Used to Be a Miserable F*ck
I Used to Be a Miserable F*ckJohn Kim5h 5m3.9 (3K)$7 · $0.00
The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands
The Proper Care and Feeding of HusbandsDr. Laura Schlessinger2h 21m3.8 (22.6K)$16 · $0.00
Original Sins
Original SinsMatt Rowland Hill9h 38m4.2 (1.3K)$29 · $0.00
A Council of Dolls
A Council of DollsMona Susan Power11h 16m4.2 (8.7K)$8 · $0.00
Still Just a Geek
Still Just a GeekWil Wheaton23h 51m4.1 (4.7K)$53 · $0.00
Tiny Humans, Big Emotions
Tiny Humans, Big EmotionsAlyssa Blask Campbell, Lauren Elizabeth Stauble10h 14m4.3 (6K)$29 · $0.00