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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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 Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:07 am Post subject: Being a Tool of a Parent Not Just for Koreans |
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http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/11/17/081117crbo_books_acocella?currentPage=all
I'm not sure how novel any of this is, but this particular article is pretty recent:
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| It still includes spoiling�no rules, many toys�but two other, complicating factors have been added. One is anxiety. Will the child be permanently affected by the fate of the hamster? Did he touch the corpse, and get a germ? The other new element�at odds, it seems, with such solicitude�is achievement pressure. The heck with the child�s feelings. He has a nursery-school interview tomorrow. Will he be accepted? If not, how will he ever get into a good college? Overparenting is the subject of a number of recent books, and they all deplore it in the strongest possible terms. |
The source is basically one guy, Marano, and his findings writing for Pyschology Today, but it's a pretty good overview of how some kids in the US are both mollycoddled and stuffed into a pressure cooker throughout their youth. |
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Mix1
Joined: 08 May 2007
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Great article.
It probably applies to recent trends in Korean parenting as well. It perfectly describes my sister and her children; the children have been so spoiled they totally run the household. This makes having dinner at their house annoying, since the kids (my nephew and niece) interrupt constantly and try to dominate all conversation. |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| In answer to your musing; no, it's not particularly novel. There are dumbass parents in every country. They just come in different flavors depending on the economic class/geographic region/education level. |
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