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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On this forum, some people, envious of parents of advanced students, use the word "push" to describe "effective parenting." This jealousy does two things: it leads to assumptions that the other parent must be doing something more effective or better, without giving them credit, and it suggests that the advanced student couldn’t be pursuing their achievements out of personal interest. All of this could be avoided by simply minding their own business, but some just can’t help themselves.[/quote]

But sometimes pushing is just pushing and not at all effective parenting.  Effective parenting is putting your kid in a lot of activities, following the kid's passions, helping the kid set their own goals, and then pushing the kid to take the steps necessary to achieve them.  Effective parenting might also include putting a kid in outside enrichment if the subject is important to you.

Signing a kid up for a competition in an area in which they show little passion and lack a reasonable foundation, having the kid do somewhat poorly, and then deciding that you need to make the kid practice more and try harder without addressing the kid's interest or foundational knowledge isn't effective parenting.  It's just pushing.

I hope OP takes all of this to heart.  OP's kid is unlikely do do well next year on AMC 8 if she isn't getting some sort of outside foundation, whether it's through RSM, AoPS, her school's math club, the local math circle, or whatever.  She's also unlikely to do well or practice effectively if she isn't especially interested in the math.  [/quote]

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