Jim Penman argues parents push kids too hard toward elite schools and high-status jobs, damaging their mental health and character. He says construction work can offer a better life than prestigious careers. It's time to stop measuring success by status alone.
You want to have more kids? One of the things we've got to stop doing is we've got to stop pushing our kids so much. It's not good for them psychologically, emotionally, and character-wise. It's not helping them at all. This whole idea that you've got to be super educated and get into the highest prestigious universities and jobs and so forth is really backwards. What's wrong with being a construction worker or something like that if that's where you're going, or doing a lesser job but having a better life?
Rising mental illness and falling birth rates have the same cause, it is this.....
