Rethinking Achievement Culture
A Discussion of the Risks of Achievement Culture in Never Enough by Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Social Issues
Parenting Successful Kids – Takeaways from The Triple Package by Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld
For children of immigrants, assimilation into American culture has been associated with worse outcomes. What are these parents doing differently? Here are my practical takeaways for parents.
Yellow Flag for Social Emotional Learning – Takeaways from Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier
This book challenged my initial belief that emotional social learning taught in schools was probably harmless and likely beneficial. One of my primary takeaways from Bad Therapy was that some techniques that are currently in-vogue for parents and teachers to teach emotional skills (i.e., “social emotional learning”) are counterproductive.