“Discussions between parents and children are a hallmark of middle-class child rearing,” Annette Lareau writes in her 2003 book about middle class, working class, and poverty class child rearing in the eastern and midwestern United States. “Organized activities, established and controlled by mothers and fathers, dominate the lives of middle-class children…. By making sure their children have these and other experiences, middle-class parents engage in a process of concerted cultivation. From this, a robust sense of entitlement takes root in these children”
