The Hurried Child, Revisited Carleton Kendrick Ed. The pressure to grow up fast , to achieve early in the very great in middle-class America .
Children have to achieve success early or they are regarded as losers.
Frighteningly, today's hurried child is much more hurried. Forget The Grinch Who Stole Christmas . That's petty larceny. Teen pregnancy rates in the United States are the highest for any Western nation. Fourth-grade girls are dieting in record numbers.