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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is DCUM. Admitting to pushing your kid, prepping for the AAP tests, acknowledging your privilege, or making less than $500k is forbidden. 
Only the truly wealthy let their kids slack and wander.[b] Whether  they rise to true Tiger Mom status or employ more subtle tactics, it’s one of the main tenets of the UMC playbook to push your kids and hoard opportunities for them at the expense of others. [/b]
Pushing your kids is as American as gun ownership and racism - admitting it, not so much. We have to pretend our kids are successful due to their purely self-motivated hard work. Manifest Destiny! [/quote]

OP here. Yes, exactly. Isn't this the subject of the book "Dream Hoarders" by Richard Reeves? Except I think Reeves is wrong and his observations don't match up with what I see at DC's W school. [/quote]

With all your pushing, is your kid figuring out how to live life independently? Or are you going to have to continue to push in college, and afterward?

[b]Kids aren't naturally lazy. They are born curious about the world, but they have that curiosity beaten out of them by overbearing parents.[/b] If your kid is so lazy that he needs the kind of pushing you are doing, I really wonder how he's going to survive when you aren't there to push anymore.[/quote]

kids are born wanting to do stuff they like and not wanting to do stuff they don't like. [b]when you never do stuff you don't like, you are lazy[/b].[/quote]

It all comes down to how you decide to like or dislike something then, doesn't it? That's where parents can be helpful -- in a way that has nothing to do with pushing.[/quote]

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