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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"at least 10 years away from starting the college process"...is your child in Kindergarten??[/quote]

No, 1st.  But I have some interest in some of the issues discussed here, have extended family members who have recently gone through the college application process or will soon, and am just curious what the future holds.  I wonder whether my spouse and I will become single-minded, stop-at-nothing-to-get-my-child-into-an-Ivy types in a few years.  Right now, we do have reasonably high expectations, but are fairly laidback, I like to think.  Will that change?  Or were the types of parents here who are calling others idiots and morons always that way, even in the earlier years?[/quote]

I don't think you're nearly as "laid back" as you think. Your kid is in first grade, you're hanging out on DCUM college forums, you're getting offended by people, and you're openly weighing the possibility that you may very well be a "stop-at-nothing-to-...-Ivy" parent, almost as if you assume just pushing your kid the right way can guarantee acceptance to a top college. You clearly think that it's more a function of your parenting than your kid's individual ambition and abilities.

All in all, that's not a picture of someone who's "fairly laid back."[/quote]

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