This just in: parents take helicoptering over the top. To wit, this post on the NYTimes Motherlode blog that links to a CNN story on moms who quit their jobs to help their kids get into college. No joke. According to the piece, these are highly educated, professional women who take a “college prep leave” […]
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Helicopters Gone Wild
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", culture, decision-making, grass-is-greener, Millenials, tagged helicopter parents, motherlode, treadmill on May 4, 2010| 3 Comments »
Fail Thee Well
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", culture, why women?, tagged character strengths, Christopher Peterson, Dominic Randolph, Elizabeth Gilbert, failure, great expectations, KIPP Infinity School, Martin Seligman, New York Times, Paul Tough, perfection, positive psychology, Riverdale Country School, Tom Brunzell on September 20, 2011| 3 Comments »
What if the surest indicator of your future success–of living a happy, meaningful, and productive life–is how good you are at failing? Brace yourselves, perfectionists, because the evidence is mounting: in order to fly, you’ve first got to fail. And (worse!) how well you fail may be one of the biggest predictors of success. Bigger […]
Everyone Is Wrong About You
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", identity, Millenials, tagged being yourself, tyranny of the shoulds, Undecided: How to ditch the endless quest for perfect and find a career -- and life -- that works for you on July 12, 2011| 2 Comments »
Last week, at a reading in Seattle, WA, a young woman who’d recently graduated from none less than Harvard, raised her hand: She and her girlfriends had been so thrilled when they were accepted to the school whose name is virtually synonymous with overachievement, accomplishment, and success, she said, “it was like, this is what […]
The Race of the Rug Rats
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", life choices, Uncategorized, worklife balance, tagged expectations, Tara parker-pope, The rugrat race, treadmill on April 8, 2010| Leave a Comment »
You’ll find good news and bad news out of a new time-use study out of the Brookings Institution conducted by a husband and wife team of UC-San Diego economists. Reporting on the study, New York Times blogger Tara Parker-Pope writes that moms and dads alike are spending more time with their kids than ever before, […]
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