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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is tidy and well-behaved, so people make insane assumptions about her intelligence based on that. For some reason she seems to attract the attention of type-A tiger parents (we are a mixed family) of truly gifted kids who assume we are on the same path based on our education and professional lives. I usually brush off any conversations they want to start with “we’re focused on other things and we’re really happy with how school is going” because from experience people are seeking out receptive audiences with which to obsess over criticizing academic rigor at school or obsess over competitive admissions for other schools, and that’s not a conversation that I like to have in my free time.[/quote]

That’s funny, I have the opposite problem. My kid is well behaved, but is naturally sort of disheveled and silly. He is grades ahead in math and reading and the youngest in his Suzuki intermediate strings group. I WISH tiger moms would choose to chat with me so I could relate to them and we could trade tips! Instead my kid chooses to hang out with the troublemakers and poor kids and wealthy tiger moms have no idea I’m a secret tiger mom. TBH I guess I am secretly high strung and high achieving but am naturally disheveled the way DS is. [/quote]

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