As a father of two 5-year-olds I’m fairly new to this parenting thing. However, one observation I have made is that it’s really hard not to impose your own fears and in-securities on your kids.
Hence, I had to chuckle when I read David Brook’s commentary:
I mean, don’t today’s much-discussed hipster parents notice that their claims to rebellious individuality are undercut by the fact that they are fascistically turning their children into miniature reproductions of their hipper-than-thou selves? Don’t they observe that with their inevitable hummus snacks, their pastel-free wardrobes, their unearned sense of superiority and their abusively pretentious children’s names like Anouschka and Elijah, they are displaying a degree of conformity that makes your average suburban cul-de-sac look like Renaissance Florence?
Like their parents who embarrassed them by yelling and screaming at their little league games a generation ago, many of today’s parents are living through their kids as little […]
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