Ep. 90: Prof. Suniya Luthar - When Having It All Doesn’t Translate Into Having It Easy

Send us a text Americans were never that concerned about the issues of educating children until it dawned on everybody that children are in fact “economically useless, but emotionally priceless” as described by Viviana A. Zelizer. Since then, being over-consumed by current competition and future career success, well-educated upper-middle class affluent families, schools and communities are caught up in ensuring their children’s success, rather than preparing them for life. On today’s podcast,...