If this piece reveals anything about the larger educational picture, perhaps it's that the pendulum is swinging back to more austere forms of upbringing.
It is peculiar, however, that the austerity would be growing out from Positive Psychology, which traditionally was more laid back and unrestricted. This mash-up of seemingly opposite worldviews makes sense if you consider the trend of the last 20 or 30 years to reconcile differences in cultural. I invite you to read David Brook's Bobos in Paradise for an incredibly lucid account of the convergence of Bohemia and Bourgeois values in the last few decades.
It is peculiar, however, that the austerity would be growing out from Positive Psychology, which traditionally was more laid back and unrestricted. This mash-up of seemingly opposite worldviews makes sense if you consider the trend of the last 20 or 30 years to reconcile differences in cultural. I invite you to read David Brook's Bobos in Paradise for an incredibly lucid account of the convergence of Bohemia and Bourgeois values in the last few decades.