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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a highly selective college and I would consider letting my daughter get invested in going there to be a major parenting foul.

1) Kids are their own people. They have their own  paths. 
2) “I want to go to Harvard” is as bad a dream for a kid to fixate on as[b] “I want to play in the NBA.” [/b]It undervalues the parts that are the most important and overvalues the final outcome that’s very unlikely to happen no matter what. [/quote]

Comments like this are interesting, because there are in fact the .01% of athletes who do in fact go on to play their sport professionally.

If you look at Caleb Williams (Gonzaga graduate, likely top 5 NFL draft pick), his parents sacrificed massively for him to be where he is and he had private trainers, private QB coaches, etc.  Sure, he wanted it...but he probably wasn't going to get there on his own.

The issue quite honestly is that most highly successful people do have goals like "I want to play in the NFL"...the problem is that for many they have the "dream" to play in the NFL and not the goal.  Meaning, they aren't prepared to give up essentially 1/2 their life to attaining that level of success and/or they realize they don't have the natural ability or size from the start.

Look at basically any successful athlete, entertainer, etc.  Even a group like Nirvana...Kurt Cobain told his bandmates when they were nothing that his goal was to create the biggest band in the world.  Again, most people "dream" of that happening...very few put in the 10,000+ hours to make it a reality.[/quote]

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