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[quote=Anonymous]Malcolm Gladwell wrote a great chapter about Middle Class/Upper middle class approach to parenting which  he basically cribbs off Annette Lareu's anthropological study of how socioeconomic class affects parenting.

basically the short version is that middle class to upper middle class families want their kids to do at least as well if not better than them. They don't have a real financial legacy they can give their kids such as big trust or inheritance so instead they do a lot of helicopter parenting and micromanaging their kids lives to ensure the kid is successful in school, successful in getting into a good college and then that will help set the kid on a road to prosperity.

The problem is that college is getting increasingly more competitive and expensive (ivy league acceptance rate ranges from about 7-15 percent with 30-40,000 kids applying) and the job market in many fields is super competitive. I think it would be better to worry about whether my kid is going to be resilient and can overcome failure.

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