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[quote=Anonymous]I agree, but also this starts when the kids are infants. Raising kids in this area, you deal with people like this basically from your first interaction with other parents on playgrounds or in toddler playgroups. It's exhausting and creates this spiral where everyone is so insecure about their child's "achievement" and goes into these warrior like stances on everything from athletics to school to parenting choices.

This attitude does exist elsewhere (my siblings deal with it where they live out West too) but I think it's especially bad here. I see it in the kids more than anything. Some of them have taken on these attitudes and are becoming as toxic as their parents, some are crumbling under the pressure of trying to live up to this impossible standard that is really about bragging rights for their parents, and some of them just become defiant and stop caring because thy can see how dumb it is.

It's no way to live. I feel like I put more work into protecting my kid and my family from that toxic Hunger Games culture than I put into trying to get my child into the best possible college. This is not the path to happiness.[/quote]

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