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The Anxious Style of American Parenting
- As Barbara Ehrenreich and Katherine Newman have convincinglyargued, many boomers also had anxiety about falling out of the middle class in their 30s and 40s. But those years of their lives were not subject to constant optimization. The kernels of productivity culture had been sewn, but they hadn’t yet been normalized. Some upper middle-class white ... See more
from The Friendship Dip by Anne Helen Petersen
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- Not only does overparenting hurt our children; it harms us, too. Parents today are scared, not to mention exhausted, anxious, and depressed.
from How to Raise an Adult — Julie Lythcott-Haims by Julie Lythcott-Haims
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Anxious People: The No. 1 New York Times bestseller, now a Netflix TV Series
If a parent has no other source of self-worth and self-esteem, which is unhappily true of many parents whose lives are limited to raising “good” children, the stage is set for a dependency on children that makes the parent overanxious and severely needful that the children behave in particular ways.
from Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children by Thomas Gordon
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The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
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- Many young people concerned with burnout don’t have kids. But their motivations are an extension of the same impulse behind concerted parenting—they, too, feel like participants in a pseudo-meritocratic rat race, and they’re terrified of losing status, class, or future income. Young YouTube stars work to exhaustion to meet the expectations of an al... See more
from Three Theories for Why You Have No Time by Derek Thompson
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There’s a reason I associated the forums with conservative types. It’s not particularly popular (or easy) to frame parenthood as aspirational when you hold the concerns of the left. At least not in my world. Sure, you can have kids as a leftist, but the primary conversations surrounding parenthood that I participated in concerned its problems: the
... See morefrom #147: Who’s allowed to want kids? by Haley Nahman
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