
High-Achieving Kids: The culture of never enough
ParentData with Emily Oster
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The Impact of Macro Forces on Children's Childhoods
This chapter explores the reasons why children's childhoods today are different from previous generations, focusing on macroeconomic forces that parents are unaware of. It discusses extreme inequality, the decline of the middle class, and globalization, which have created a hyper-competitive environment and unknowingly passed on stress and fear to children through parenting.
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