Carl Honore wants you to chill out already.
The
London-based-by-way-of-Canada Honore, best known for his book "In
Praise of Slow" is promoting his second book on "hyper-parenting" due
out next week.
"Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children From
the Culture of Hyper-Parenting" was inspired by his own experience at a
parent-teacher conference for his then seven-year-old son. His teacher
called his son a "gifted artist" and Honore was off, Googling special
art classes and anything else he could think of to nurture his son's
talents.
But the next day his son said, plaintively (I imagine)...
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