Perfection

Kids These Days by Michigan Public

Aug 5, 202016:14Kids & family

We live in a college town where many of us feel a lot of pressure to get all As and go to the perfect school. We look at how this quest to be perfect affects the way we think of ourselves. Want to make sure Michigan Radi...

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