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The Parent Trap

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Introduction

The parent trap is the unrealistic expectation that we place on parents to build a huge range of important skills in children early in their life. Economist nate pilgra thinks of children as the largest disfranchised minority group in america, and that parents are being failed along with their children. It's especially hard because the job of giving kids everything they need largely falls to parents. Join me on into it from vulture to hear about fantasy's race problem.

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