Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry rants about online articles about parenting.

Here’s the lede of a recent story about parenting on Atlantic Media’s business news site Quartz: “Kids who understand gratitude have better grades and are less likely to get depressed.”

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. The reason why you should teach your kids gratitude is…that they might get better grades.

Apparently parenting stories are the new cat photo slideshows for high(middle)brow websites (thank you Amy Chua) because I see more and more of them (the most popular story on Quartz right now is this cruel, insufferable one about how to brag on the internet about mistreating your kids). And each time it is like an ice cream headache.