Vocabulary
Stoke - "Such is the madness of many a suburban parent, a folly stoked by ego and fear."
Pristine - "We treat our children as monuments to our own awesomeness, taking unseemly pride in their pristine report cards."
Organizational Strategies
Mocking POV paragraph- In paragraph 3 and 4, author takes on the POV (in an exaggerated way) of a group that he's gently mocking.
Parents who can't face the fact that their kids are average? How ridiculous! And yet… those must be other parents. Right? After all, if our kids were average, we wouldn't put them on year-round travel teams, force them to practice the cello for three hours a day or sign them up for every honors class short of AP taxidermy (and we'd put them in that, too, if we hear that the admissions director at Princeton had a weakness for stuffed oppossums).
Anaphora paragraph- In paragraph 10, author writes a paragraph that is very structured, which helps lay out the problem.
Meanwhile, we're letting a lot of other things slide. We allow our children to shirk household chores if they say they need to study. We skip family dinners to drive them from one team practice to another. We worry far more about their fifth-grade science fair project than their sense of integrity.
Style Strategies
summary,context,colon (sentence style) -
Levine, who has written a book titled "The Price of Privilege," is part of a wave of therapists, researchers and social observers who argue that many of today's parents have found a new method of screwing up their kids: ask too much of them in some ways, not nearly enough in others.
Stoke - "Such is the madness of many a suburban parent, a folly stoked by ego and fear."
Pristine - "We treat our children as monuments to our own awesomeness, taking unseemly pride in their pristine report cards."
Organizational Strategies
Mocking POV paragraph- In paragraph 3 and 4, author takes on the POV (in an exaggerated way) of a group that he's gently mocking.
Parents who can't face the fact that their kids are average? How ridiculous! And yet… those must be other parents. Right? After all, if our kids were average, we wouldn't put them on year-round travel teams, force them to practice the cello for three hours a day or sign them up for every honors class short of AP taxidermy (and we'd put them in that, too, if we hear that the admissions director at Princeton had a weakness for stuffed oppossums).
Anaphora paragraph- In paragraph 10, author writes a paragraph that is very structured, which helps lay out the problem.
Meanwhile, we're letting a lot of other things slide. We allow our children to shirk household chores if they say they need to study. We skip family dinners to drive them from one team practice to another. We worry far more about their fifth-grade science fair project than their sense of integrity.
Style Strategies
summary,context,colon (sentence style) -
Levine, who has written a book titled "The Price of Privilege," is part of a wave of therapists, researchers and social observers who argue that many of today's parents have found a new method of screwing up their kids: ask too much of them in some ways, not nearly enough in others.