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Paranoid parenting won’t give your kids an edge in the age of AI
It’s an illusion to think we can robot-proof our kids’ education choices.
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Paranoid parenting is now more rational, given the levels of uncertainty in the economy.
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Camilla Cavendish
The great jobs displacement is coming, and it is enough to give anyone vertigo. It is even worse if you are a parent. Will our offspring be swallowed by the AI Pac-Man? Should the aspiring drama student be pushed to join the stampede into science subjects? Is the expensive panic master’s degree better than a paid job in the pub?
Helicopter parents have always looked for an edge, despite this sometimes backfiring. A new paper finds that in South Korea, where extra tutoring is now so intense that high school students are not getting enough sleep, the most tutored children are more likely to become behaviourally disengaged at school. How that helps anyone is unclear. But the worldwide tutoring industry continues to grow.
