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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If so...how much is family culture, nature vs nurture, community, luck,  SES? 
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All of this stuff matters a lot more when you have kids with challenges.

Intelligent, attractive, hardworking kids who make friends easily do well in a lot of environments.

Kids who struggle really benefit from a structured environment, authoritative and flexible parenting, parents who can afford therapy, a school with a good special education program and extra curricular activities, etc. 
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This is a really good take. I have kids who have LD/ADHD and social challenges. It sucks.  Meanwhile our community is full of parents whose kids won the genetic lottery and they are very self congratulatory. We do the same enrichment, organic diet, good schools, support, play dates, blah blah as all the other parents, but nature can't trump nurture in our case. My kids are good kids, polite, respectfully, funny.  So they are "great kids" but probably not how OP meant that term.  [/quote]

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