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[quote=Anonymous]Nope.  I was little miss perfectionist/type A.  It all came from me.  My sons are so much like me in that aspect.  School and sports---they have to be the best.  Luckily, both come easy to them---but they have a hard time with perceived failure.   I am always telling them effort is all I care about and they need to relax. There would be tears if they didn't bring home 100% in elementary school.  I was seriously worried people at the school thought I was some crazed tiger mom (I'm Caucasian anyways).  But--I always told them that was the time to learn and the grades didn't matter---but their school environment was pretty intense.   They are competitive by nature too.  As they get further along in school I worry about the undue pressure they put upon themselves.  I am always keeping a close eye.

It's funny.  We are very laid back about sports and school...and we have two of the most intense kids about those things.  I usually am hearing from friends that their kids don't do schoolwork or need to be reminded a dozen times and  my 6th grader actually said----"Ugh, I got a 100% on my math test which is going to bring down my 106%".   WTF?!?!!![/quote]

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