| They talk to them--a lot. Sociologist Annette Lareau has studied how parents talk to kids. See David Brooks article in the New York Times March 9, 2006 |
| "It's wrong to say good parents raise successful kids and bad parents raise unsuccessful ones. The story is more complicated than that." --David Brooks |
| David Brooks writes: "[Working-class] children, like their parents, were easily intimidated by and pushed around by verbally dexterous teachers and doctors... working-class kids felt constrained and tongue-tied." |
| How do upper-class parents prepare their kids for success in the world?? |
| One of the big differences between upper-middle-class and working-class styles of rearing children is how much parents talk to kids. |
| Working class kids tend to be more "relaxed and vibrant," and they rarely whine. |
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