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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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"Psychological development goes awry when children are pressured into valuing the views of others over their own.

Madeline Levine • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

Since self-esteem comes from actual

Madeline Levine PhD • Teach Your Children Well

No parent should tolerate what has become a culturally normalized form of child abuse—sleep deprivation, repetitive stress injuries from early and excessive athletics, overwhelming academic stress, and a complete disregard for the known protective factors of child development.

Madeline Levine PhD • Teach Your Children Well

Our most important job—to provide a calm, secure, and loving haven for our children as they go about the challenging business of growing up—has been utterly compromised.

Madeline Levine PhD • Teach Your Children Well

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

Madeline Levine • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

community that once provided the emotional resources to weather the challenges of child rearing. Instead we are immersed in a culture that emphasizes individuality, competition, and self-centeredness.

Madeline Levine PhD • Teach Your Children Well

"Parents need to reassure their children that they will not “die poor and lonely” if they don’t get into honors math, or become school valedictorian, or go to Harvard."

Madeline Levine • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

The precursor to authentic success is the growth of a sense of self that feels robust and genuine.