1.It is not just in academic study that children are being pushed harder at ever-earlier ages. Some parents start their preschool children in sports such as tennis and swimming in hopes that they will become Olympic athletes.
2.The pressure to make ordinary children exceptional has become almost an epidemic in sports.
3.Around the country private tutoring centers are sprouting up like dandelions in the sping, offering lessons in everything from beginning reading to taking college entrance exams.
4.It is not the normal, healthy desire of parents to have successful children that is the problem, but the excessive pressure some parents are putting on children.
5.Such practices run the risk of producing children who are dependent and lacking in self-esteem.
6.Although correlation is certainly not causation, it is hard not to connect the reported increase in stress symptoms over the last decade with the pressure on today's children to be super kids.