The upper-class and upper-middle-class parents I met w ere dedicated not just to being themselves, but to d oing the work of becoming a certain kind of individual recognized for her or his ability to understand, discuss, and enact the world of emotional depth and interiority.7 Debates about whether the self was found or made, and other philosophical stances about ones inner quests, personal journeys, and metaphysical and existentialist concerns w ere intertwined with recommendations for life coaches, therapists, Buddhist meditation centers, yoga retreats, Kardecismo and espirita groups (in Brazil), and various healers, gurus, and relationship experts (see chapters 4 and 5).8 These debates were not very diff erent from those common among upper-class parents 16 Chapter One in the United States or the United Kingdom
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