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[quote=Anonymous]No, I want my kid to be happy and to define success for themselves. I have seen and experienced how wanting your kids to "win" at life sets everyone up for misery and disappointment. The more narrowly you define what success is for your kid, the more likely they are to push against it. And if they don't, their life won't belong to them and that will haunt them, too. I agree with the PP who said this attitude is completely toxic. For everyone involved. That said, in DC I constantly meet parents who clearly have this approach and they are exhausting and are probably messing up their kids while simultaneously making everything harder for the rest of us. I even have close friends who I think, if you asked them, would say they don't think this. But the way they talk to and about their kid, and the way they choose to compare their kid to others unnecessarily all the time, says otherwise. Even people who know this is bad can't help themselves sometimes.[/quote]
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