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[quote=Anonymous]I think about this often with my kid. She's been at the top of her class every year. I was bored out of my mind throughout elementary and middle school. It wasn't until I got into my high performing high school that I felt challenged. By then, I'd learned to coast by in school and didn't have much drive. I failed a lot because the concept of studying was foreign to me. I think I spent the first two years of high school blaming everyone else and the last two years trying to BS my way to graduation.

For a while I worried that this was my daughter's fate until I realized that my parents weren't involved in my schooling in any way. I'm very involved. I don't bother her teachers too much. I give her advanced work at home and try to place her in enrichment programs after school and on the weekends.

I read Gladwell's David and Goliath which made me consider whether or not my child's esteem and self concept is driven by the fact that she is one of the top performers. I need to figure out how to keep her from ending up like me when she gets to high school though. [/quote]

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