The High Cost of Winning the Educational Race

Interesting review in the New York Times today on parenting.  Take a look…

‘Teach Your Children Well,’ by Madeline Levine - NYTimes.com

After all, as Levine notes, the inconvenient truth remains that not every child can be shaped and accelerated into Harvard material. But all kids can have their spirits broken, depression induced and anxiety stoked by too much stress, too little downtime and too much attention given to external factors that make them look good to an audience of appraising eyes but leave them feeling rotten inside.

via ‘Teach Your Children Well,’ by Madeline Levine – NYTimes.com.

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