Perspective: Parents, our definition of success is all wrong
By Lindsay Powers May 8 at 11:30 AM “Be bold! Be different! Don’t be afraid to fail!,” we encourage our kids via cute T-shirts, bright pencil cases, and Instagram memes.
Now I’m not suggesting that we stop caring, or support a generation of directionless philosophers. We should still push our kids to set goals and achieve them. But those benchmarks should feel more organic to their temperaments and less about our desire to brag. I don’t write this to judge us as parents. Many of us started our careers just before or during the 2008 recession, graduating with tons of college debt and into the sometimes unforgiving gig economy. We’ve all read the scary stats about how our generation will earn less money than our parents’ for the first time in history.
As I was writing this, I was curious what the people who are experts in, well, raising successful kids would think about the idea of encouraging our children to follow their own roads. So I called award-winning journalist Tatsha Robertson and Ronald F. Ferguson, a Harvard economist who has sat on the school’s admissions board for 30 years. They recently wrote a book, “The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children.
So when you feel that anxiety rising up in your throat that you are not doing enough, take a deep breath. By pushing your children to become the very best version of themselves — no matter what professional, or educational, paths it leads them down — you’re giving them the tools to real fulfillment and a more calm and centered life. And you’re saving yourself a lot of stress in the process.
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