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Jennifer Senior: For parents, happiness is a very high bar
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<blockquote data-quote="runawaybunny" data-source="post: 639851" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><em>"The parenting section of the bookstore is overwhelming—it's "a giant, candy-colored monument to our collective panic," as writer Jennifer Senior puts it. Why is parenthood filled with so much anxiety? Because the goal of modern, middle-class parents—to raise happy children—is so elusive. In this honest talk, she offers some kinder and more achievable aims."</em></p><p></p><p>[media=youtube]DOgsYATbV-s[/media]</p><p></p><p>At the height of my daughter's gfgness I would not have listed my child's happiness as a parenting goal. I was more concerned that she keep herself safe and quit making self destructive choices.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="runawaybunny, post: 639851, member: 1"] [I]"The parenting section of the bookstore is overwhelming—it's "a giant, candy-colored monument to our collective panic," as writer Jennifer Senior puts it. Why is parenthood filled with so much anxiety? Because the goal of modern, middle-class parents—to raise happy children—is so elusive. In this honest talk, she offers some kinder and more achievable aims."[/I] [media=youtube]DOgsYATbV-s[/media] At the height of my daughter's gfgness I would not have listed my child's happiness as a parenting goal. I was more concerned that she keep herself safe and quit making self destructive choices. [/QUOTE]
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