Middle-class and affluent children are raised in a more individualistic manner.
The machine, called the XO Laptop, was not engineered with affluent children in mind.
Parents heard about how affluent children suffer from high rates of depression, anxiety and substance abuse.
Poor, middle-class and affluent children are all destabilized, even those who get to spend nights indoors.
I am not naive and do believe that there are differences when parenting well-off and less affluent children.
"A lot of families, especially new money, are really concerned about their children getting close to other very affluent children," Greenhouse says.
By age 2, the study found, affluent children had learned 30 percent more words in the intervening months than the children from low-income homes.
In an economic echo of Tolstoy's line about happy families being alike, the chances that affluent children grow up to be affluent are broadly similar across metropolitan areas.
Children in these programs develop foundational skills on par with those of more affluent children and create a stronger family structure for themselves.
On the other hand, Dr. Buchholz said, the over-structured life seems to be a problem for affluent children more than for poor children.
