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[quote=Anonymous]Same!

My “bad luck” kid is a senior now that got accepted into every college he applied and is headed to an Ivy next year. After 10 years of politics, cuts, injury, he was invited to a pro team tryout where he is crushing it and was able to walk on the college team.

All of that “bad luck” created the grittiest, most persistent kid that works hard and has a healthy disregard for rejection. He’s turned all of it into good luck by work.  I always told him something better will come along and the failure/rejection was a blessing. It was always true.

The younger kid with the “good luck” has seen this glow up of older bro and it’s been a great lesson. I see him now not resting in his laurels and he had his first disappointment this year and handled it well seeing his older brother go through similar countless times.

Everything I have read is that the kids that experience failure, rejection in childhood are better off emotionally later on than kids that got everything easily or had parents that cleared every obstacle out of their way, brownnosed the coaches, etc. [/quote]

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