Both Curran and Hill are quick to clarify that they’re not blaming parents, who place excessive expectations on kids because they think that is what society demands. The problem resides in the potential gap between what a child can actually do and what a parent or society expects of them. Parents are reacting anxiously to a hypercompetitive world, with intense academic pressures, extreme inequality, and innovations like social media that feed unrealistic ideals of how we should look and perform, Curran explained.
