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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know the answer to your question, OP. Here's how it worked for us. We have two kids who have always been great students, intellectually curious, and self-motivated. Both are at Ivy colleges. We also have a daughter who struggles to maintain a B average in high school and would rather do almost anything than study. I think we've given all of our children similar opportunities and advantages, but they have responded differently to the parental environment we've provided. In a few years DD will be off to college and it will be up to her to decide how seriously she wishes to take her education. Just because you're the parent doesn't mean you always control your child's outcome. It is more complicated than that. [/quote]

OP here.  Do you think any part of it is due to family dynamics?  If both of your older children are at Ivy colleges do you think that your younger one felt like she/he could never live up?  I don't believe that the environment for two kids,even growing up in the same household, is ever quite the same.  Do you think you might have been a little more relaxed with your third?  In our case, my younger one heard me working with my older one from a fairly young age and saw how how much we valued education and responded positively.   With my older one, she never had the experience of hearing me work with an older child etc.  I agree too that a one size fits all model doesn't work- my younger one could have decided that he couldn't compete with my older one.  Personality plays a big part in all of this as well.

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