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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope to all of you pp's on this thread that there is another lesson you teach your kids, while you "push" them along...and that is, there is more to life than achievement. Life is not a race. Life is more than that. Don't put your big time D.C. crap on your 5 year old's shoulders. Childhood is short. Allow them to be children, first and foremost. That is the best gift of all.
Maybe you all need to take a deep breath before you react to this revolutionary idea.[/quote]

You can take OP's question as, "how do you instill work ethic?" or you can take it as, "how to I ensure my kid gets into Harvard?"  You obviously took it the latter way. The rest of us took it the former way.

Some kids are born with work ethic. Others are not. My DS falls into the latter category, unfortunately. He coasted on his smarts through middle school, which was a magnet where he got mostly As with very little work.  Now that he's in high school, his lack of work ethic is catching up to him. We worry that he won't apply himself in a job. We wish that we had figured out, in middle school, how to instill a love of work and pushing himself for their own sakes, instead of just letting him learn to coast.

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