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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child thinks he is amazing athlete, he is not. He will say I scored 15 points when it is more like 5.roblems only arise when hid older brother bursts his reality. Why do you feel the need to challenge or correct her. Just let it be.

[b]She has her reality, you have yours[/b].[/quote]

This is one of the most idiotic statements I have ever read in regards to parenting on DCUM, and that is saying a lot.

Your child is NOT an amazing basketball player. What's wrong with recognizing that his 5 points are a nice, but minimal contribution to the team and that perhaps his talents lie elsewhere and no, in fact, he is not going to play in the NBA?

Do you want your kid to grow up in LaLa land? In a "reality" that no one lives in but him? Why can't you teach him to face hard facts?[/quote]

I am sure you h has a different reality too when you disagree.

The point is everybody's reality is just that, their own. I actually told a coach for a travel team we were not interested because my son was not that good and he said "actually he is really good" ... Maybe I am comparing him to his older brother, maybe my "reality" is just an opinion. The travel coach had no interest in getting him for his team so there was no reason for him to lie to me.

I don't really care to correct every single reality of a 10 year old. If you educate yourself on child development, it is common for middle schoolers to have distorted reality. That is why you don't believe their stories about what goes on in school.

Sometimes their reality is over confident, sometimes it lacks confidence, eventually we hope to end up somewhere in the middle. It is unrealistic to expect a middle school student to have a clear reality. [/quote]

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