Why Parenting Now Feels Like an Investment Strategy
In an age of hustle culture and hyperoptimization, parenting has become a source of pressure. The consequences aren’t great.
Illustration: Ula Zuhra for Bloomberg
It was the picture of the eagle that stopped me in my tracks.
My son, who produced only a series of random lines for his kindergarten “self-portrait,” had begun churning out dozens of drawings of the things he was obsessed with: trains, bridges, skyscrapers and animals.