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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband and I – I think – are okay parents.  We try to balance positive reinforcement and encouragement and setting general rules/parameters.  Our kids are pretty intelligent and do pretty well in their challenging school. They don’t have the “fire in the belly’ to really kill it with grades, sports, extracurriculars, etc.  Many high school students at our school are ‘tryhards’ (as the youth say) and achievers in these areas.

How do these kids become so driven? Intrinsic drive, parent pressure, parents successfully supporting their strengths?  I’m sure there are all sorts of reasons – I just feel like there’s something we didn’t do/aren’t doing that would motivate them to push themselves more. I’m not suggesting they must grind themselves to the ground.

What’s the special sauce parents use? If there is any? As my kids age, I have come to realize that I have much less influence than I’d thought.

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You put our kid in private school for you not them that is why they are average

As kid who is truly motivated and gifted goes to elite privates not DMV ones

You can not teach rive 
You can teach a love of learning as a parent

That means you make an effort to be interested in learning as well. 
Some  motivated kids get jobs outside of your house during the school year, that changes many kids trajectory ie makes them understand hard work [/quote]

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