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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, keep up and rise to the occasion or get left behind. Make smart decisions, be a planner, take risks and create opportunities. American’s are largely complacent and choose to not reach for more. My kids enjoy excelling and being at the very top for everything. I do, as well. I am a competitive person though and always have been. My husband likes appearances as he is from an old Dallas family who is like that. Most will just not achieve and settle or suffer though. It is a fact of life.[/quote]

Good advice but I think one problem is the parents create the opportunities not the children.  Too many parents decide everything for their children which doesn’t help kids grow into independent adults.

You can be very successful without worrying about everyone around you.  If you want a 4.0 GPA you do the work and sacrifice social time when you need to study.  It’s a solo goal. It’s not a competition.   If you are looking for an activity that you’d enjoy you research what’s available that would fit your skills.

Your kids are not at the very top of everything.   No one is. How do you explain when, for example, they enter a national competition in some subject, it doesn’t matter, and they don’t place.  Do they fall apart or do you explain that this happens.  [/quote]

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