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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t have teens but I personally was not intrinsically motivated to do well in school until my 3rd try at college when I was in my early twenties. I went on to graduate from college with high honors, and graduated from a top tier law school with honors.

[b]It may have helped me[/b] “get it” earlier if my mom had been more engaged in helping me focus during high school, and if I had not gone to a large research university. I probably needed some external pressure to succeed earlier but it wasn’t there. [/quote]

The big word here is may.  You don't know if that more external pressure would have made you more rebellious.  Please stop blaming your mom.  You can't change the past and it stunts your growth.  It is so much easier to blame someone else than taking a good hard look at yourself at that age and realizing that your mom did her best and you might have still not "got it" until you were older.  Unless your mom was a drug user or something extreme.  If you have kids would you want them blaming you years after the fact

Moms are imperfect humans, so give them a break.[/quote]

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