How to Ruin Your Kid’s Peace Corps Experience

There is really no manual, but these ideas may ruin your kid’s Peace Corps experience. 1. Serve in the Peace Corps and have a life-transforming time. 2. Have kid(s). 3. Raise your kid with the newly-forged principles wrought in the crucible of the Peace Corps years 4. Raise your kid in a rural town where the majority speak another language and operate by different cultural rules. 5. Remove helicopter. far. away. from. premises. 6. Orchestrate your life so that your college-graduate kid joins the Peace Corps as a Pavlovian response. 7. Try not to act surprised when he comes home and says he had no culture shock, Going, or coming. 8. Congratulations.