"A Compelling Argument against Parental Perfectionism"

"Today, even parents who consider themselves relatively free-range find themselves struggling in a culture of intense child-rearing anxiety. Our children are encouraged to be reading before they get to school, to be doing homework in kindergarten, to invite the entire class to their birthday parties, and, increasingly, to behave like docile, quiet, compliant miniature office workers instead of the wild, reckless, still-developing little humans they are."

Mary Elizabeth Williams in Salon interviews Heather Shumaker, author of It's OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids.