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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parenting well is difficult and exhausting. It’s impossible to do it while pushing very hard in your career. People can get away with it if it’s only one parent who has a big career, or if they end up lucky with very easy to parent kids. But otherwise not.[/quote]

Agree.  And while you can outsource common parenting tasks (driving, cooking, cleaning, etc), you absolutely cannot outsource good parenting.  [/quote]

I think part of the problem is that they have nannies and housekeepers the kids boss around. These kids are no longer young children. I was shocked at how spoiled my friend’s daughter was. My friend has told me how her relationship with her own mother has gotten worse because the daughter punched the grandmother and the mom scolded my friend. I was totally on my friend’s side until I witnessed the kid. The once difficult toddler who had tantrums has now become a tyrant. The kid rules her house in a bad way. Mom and dad on eggshells around this kid. I don’t understand how smart people can be such terrible parents.[/quote]

What makes you think that your friend is so smart?   If she was smart she would understand how allowing her children to mistreat adults is a problem and the first time she saw her child boss around an adult should have been the last time.

Did her child feel bad about punching her grandmother ?  If not she should be concerned.  These are signs that a smart person would pick up on and a smart person would be concerned enough to make it her full time job to fix his behavior.  If she’s a tyrant at home she probably is at the very least bossy outside of the home.  [/quote]

Both my friend and her husband did well academically. They run a huge successful company. Dad is out of the home. Mom also works a lot. This is a different family than the family I was referring to in my original post. The OP family is much more impressive. The tyrant daughter family is rich and well educated but nothing extraordinary. My OP family has super impressive parents, not just typical ivy educated, has a successful business or law firm partner type parents.[/quote]

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