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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids have done very well and I was a very involved parent who was spending countless hours making sure that I was tutoring them and finding/creating opportunities for them. With my firstborn, I was doing it to just enrich her and instill in her the love of learning and taking school and EC seriously. With my second, I was more clued in about college and so I was more strategic and started the enrichment earlier.  In all of that, the person who was teaching them, cobbling together a curriculum, finding textbooks for them, spending time with them etc etc - was me.

For me, it did not stop there and I was making sure that they were well socialized, confident, and that their mental health was ok. So, I became very intentional in the way I parented and lived our life.

Would my kids have done well without me? They would not have failed but they would have been in a lot of stress to succeed.  Not only academically and career wise things would have been difficult for them, but their lives could also have been derailed because their peer group would lack the tools and insight to advise them.  I think inadvertently things would have been hard for my DH and I too because having kids who were not thriving would have been stressful to us.

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Can you be specific about what you did? I’d be interested to hear. [/quote]

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