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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think we have the same daughter. It led to a High Honor Roll Award for 4.0's all year, the teacher's love her, and we will buy her anything because she is kind, sweet, adorable and focused in addition to that. We do not push her either and will help when she requests it. [/quote]

OP here, finally circling back. To answer some of the questions, she's a shy, sometimes anxious kid, but I wouldn't say her shyness hits the level of anxiety -- at least not yet, though we did have a handful of nights this year when she was in tears over various homework assignments. DD has a few interests outside of school that she pursues half heartedly because her friends do them (soccer, basketball), but she DEFINITELY doesn't have the eye of the tiger in sports or in anything else that she has for grades. Over the course of the semester, she'd check grades online repeatedly in the course of one night. My big concern is that she doesn't really seem to engage with the school material beyond checking the boxes to get good grades.

In response to the above poster, I don't think my DD's teachers love her because she's too quiet and, in some ways, robotic. They seem to love the kids who, however imperfect, bring passion into their work. And we don't reward her by buying her things because of her grades because we want to emphasize that, hey, the grades are great, but there's also more to life than having a perfect score in all your (what I suspect are too easy for her) classes. [/quote]

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