Parents are stressing a values nurture, aided by a huge new bookshelf on the subject. Bennett’s Book of Virtues, the Unraveling’s best-selling children’s book, has a medicinal cover, scant humor, and eleven teachable virtues that do not include individuality or creativity. Millennials are not being raised to explore the inner world (Boomers figure they can handle that just fine) but rather to achieve and excel in the outer.

