Raising children has come to look more and more like a business endeavor and less and less like an endeavor of the heart. We are overly concerned with “the bottom line,” with how our children “do” rather than with who our children “are.” We pour time, attention, and money into insuring their performance, consistently making it to their soccer game... See more

In uncertain times, especially when the stakes are high, all of us look for pockets of certainty. If that certainty is attached to a degree from Harvard or a profession like medicine, then many of us would be likely to overlook the bags under our kids’ eyes, knowing that we have helped them to secure a comfortable future. The problem is that this

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