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People have oddly accusatory ideas about what a Tiger Parent really entails. When intellectual, academically-inclined adults have kids with the same traits, then obviously that household might look to others as "Tiger Parentish", because they will place a high value on doing well in academic settings. If they have kids with varying traits, they need to be mindful of developing their children's talents, whatever they are, instead of insisting on the path they themselves excelled in.

The same goes for parents who used to be star athletes, or any other achievement parents dream of continuing in their offspring.

We're Tiger Parents, I suppose, in that we require straight As and classical music :-) But we also want a best fit college and are not myopically focused on Ivies. We think learning is important for its own sake. Our version is to listen to and nurture our kids while having high academic expectations and foster love of learning. Seems to be going well so far for all our kids, in that they are all curious, intellectual people.

Our oldest has special needs and is doing well in college so far. We were careful to adjust our expectations to his particular needs. He is the most intellectual of our children, actually. [/quote]

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