| There's such a thing as healthy competition. But this bubble in time in which kids burn themselves out in high school to get into a "name" college and then burn themselves out in college to get the "name" internship and then the "name" job does not seem healthy to me. It all presumes a level of maturity, ambition and drive that I'm not sure should be expected of kids (especially boys, many of whom seem to mature a bit more slowly).
If I tell my kids to be camp counselors, are their careers in a tailspin from the get-go? |