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When parental achievement masks family disconnection

My daughter got into Harvard and everyone keeps congratulating me like I accomplished something but honestly I barely saw her for the last four years because I was working so much to pay for test prep.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Success metrics obscure the emotional costs of their pursuit, leaving accomplishment hollow.

Ideas that help explain it
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