October 19, 2006

The Price of Privilege

It has been several months since I posted to my blog. I did warn in my first post that I wasn't a prolific writer!

I want to recommend a book I've started reading, The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids by Madeline Levine. In a day and age when parents often feel enormous pressure to set their children up for success in life, and children often feel enormous pressure to succeed, hers is a perspective well worth considering.