If we like sports, we want our kids to like sports. If we went to college, we want our kids to go to college. But more often than not, we define happiness as some variation on our own lives, or at least the lives of our expectations. I live in the liberal bubble of Park Slope, Brooklyn, where no yuppie would ever admit to wanting their kid to be anything in particular, other than happy. Sally Kohn is an essayist and a CNN political commentator.
