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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Go Nats! I’m sure their parents held them back. Funny, isn’t it watching the best of the best.

To play at that level requires a parent who believed in you, your talent and lots and lots of practice.

And telling you an 84 B is not going to get you where you want to go. [/quote]

No hun, it takes talent. God given talent.

I have a 19yr old at MIT. I never managed his grades, didn't use spreadsheets, wasn't involved with his homework.

My 8th grade he was being bussed to the high school for math. By 10th grade he was DE in college for math and physics. We were faced with the decision to allow him to graduate high school at 15 or slow roll school. We slow rolled school for his social growth.  He could talk circles around DH and I before be was legally allowed to drive a car. I did not have to wring my hands over 84s because my academically gifted child didn't bring home 84s and if he did he would have moved on with life. As would I because my child is not defined by his academic excellence. There is more to him than his achievements at school.

He was born this way. Elite Athletes are also born this way and have a internal love for the game. Not all parents ride their kids like a rented mule.[/quote]

The real top tier elite athletes are internally driven.[/quote]

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