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Those kids learn to believe in themselves, know themselves, value their uniqueness, and learn their own strengths and weaknesses instead of having someone else tell them what they are and who to be. Those kids have confidence in themselves and aren't crushed when people don't approve of them or life deals them a hard blow. Those kids go on to start businesses and run companies and control their own lives, they don't push pencils and spend their time building other people's dreams.

Unless their parents decide in Kindergarten it's more important for them to be in a principal's made-up club than it is for them to grow into their talents at their own pace.

OP, your DD is WONDERFUL. She is perfect in every respect, and will find her own talents in her own way when the time is right. Please don't start teaching her that she should have "proper manners" or please others. You never get ahead in life that way, but more importantly, you never find out who you are or all you're capable of that way.

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Former Queen of Proper Manners and People-Pleasing[/quote]

Thank you for the kind post.[/quote]

I agree with a lot of what is expressed in this post, [b]but why the disdain for good manners[/b]? Being polite to others and respecting the needs of a group environment doesn't seem to me like it would hold someone back. Being overly concerned with "people-pleasing" could be a concern, but I've honestly never seen another situation where proper manners went in quotes and was something to be actively discouraged. Just because a child follows the basic rules of kindergarten and/or is learning to develop manners doesn't mean they don't also have the good traits from OP's posts and the above post. [/quote]

Because her child Lillith Verdigris is not going to perform with the other soulless children who have been broken by convention![/quote]

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