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[quote=Anonymous]Yeah, you are.

You want perfect grades? That’s what matters? My kid gets very high grades now as a high schooler at a challenging school (not perfect) but I never said anything to her over the years - it comes from her. Having your own self motivations and achievements is a powerful thing that helps you throughout your life. Why do you want to hamper your kids by having them believe that it’s not their own talents and motivations that get them where they are but mommy and daddy’s? If you are both highly educated they have the tools already - let them figure out who they are for themselves.

You have them do math and English  on the weekends? Is the school education not sufficient? You might consider doing more interesting in depth things as a family instead - challenge games, building challenges, art projects, service projects as a family?

It’s hard to turn this stuff off once you start. We have friends who had a very bright kid that they over regulated and they wouldn’t even let him go things like a high school dance for fear of his grades dropping? What was good about that? That’s just crazy.

I’d lay off the ‘perfect grades’ mantra unless your kid starts getting C’s. Otherwise - yes, you’re pretty over the top.[/quote]

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