Name: TED TALKS | Education Revolution | Julie Lythcott-Haims: A Check-Listed Childhood | PBS
Uploaded: 2017-04-16T13:14:24.000Z
Duration: 1 min 49 s
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where parents feel a kid can't be successful

unless the parent is protecting and preventing at every turn

and steering their kid towards some small subset

Our kids end up leading a kind of checklisted childhood,

and here's what the checklisted childhood looks like.

We want to be sure they go to the right schools,

that they're in the right classes at the right schools,

and that they get the right grades in the right classes

they don't say, "Well, what might I be interested

"What do I need to do to get into the right college?"

And then when the grades start to roll in in high school,

they frantically text their friends and say,

"Has anyone ever gotten into the right college

under high rates of anxiety and depression,

will this life ever turn out to have been worth it?

Well, we parents, we parents are pretty sure it's all worth it.

It's, like, we literally think they will have no future

if they don't get into one of these tiny set of colleges

they won't have a future we can brag about to our friends

and with stickers on the backs of our cars.

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TED TALKS | Education Revolution | Julie Lythcott-Haims: A Check-Listed Childhood | PBS

literally

anxiety

applause

depression