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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, if you truly are an overachiever you need to snap out of this immediately.  Since it sounds like you started with the proverbial silver spoon on the scale of your test scores, you may not realize it but there are lots of kids who seem average in elementary school but end up doing amazing things.  I had a friend who never got a single A in HS who is now a prof at a mid-west flagship university.  I have another friend who flunked out of college twice but now teaches engineering at a school whose name you would know.  A friend of my wife went to a third tier state school because his HS grades were so poor.  He now is a topped out GS-15 fed.  My guess is that many of the people you know had more crooked paths through the process than you did.

My point is that you need to start working to help your kids.  If you are truly an overachiever, you can figure this problem out.  If you can't figure it out, then you too are another of the masses that have had a crooked path of achievement.  [b]The point is to push them without anyone ever knowing.  They can't know, your spouse and neighbors can't know but you have to create experiences for them that get them to stretch themselves.[/b]  At their age they don't necessarily have to be stretched academically, it could be athletically or socially.  Our kids benefited from going to lots of camps with a variety of themes and intensities every summer.  Have they been to sleep over camp yet?  Get them some experience living away from home so they build up confidence.

You can do this OP.  You may not make them NMFinalists but you certainly can help them be the best version of themselves they can be.[/quote]

WTF is this about??? This post started off sane, then got downright creepy. [/quote]

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