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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK I'm going to come out and say this: lay off the kid. He's more ambitious, has more grit and higher sights than you. These are all POSITIVE character traits. Somehow this rubs you wrong. Unless he does something illegal, I'd not worry. Remember, you have Congress members lying on their applications to get faculty positions. Let him try to the schools he wants and SUPPORT him in this. Don't stand in the way. Once acceptances roll in, worry about the rest. I'm saying this as someone who has a PhD and had to listen to my mom going "you don't need this" over and over for over a decade. I needed this. I got it (and did all the steps to get there). Ruined my relationship with mom for good as she was always so unsupportive. She never saw me for me. [/quote]

This advice boils down to: let him be mean to people because he is smart/high achieving.

In my house, that’s not allowed.  [b]Kindness is a requirement.[/b]  You don’t get out of it by excelling in another area because of the dangerous message that sends people (especially men).  [/quote]

You’re a bad parent if you don’t understand that this is a level of control that is too far.

Not allowing active meanness is one thing; requiring kindness is obnoxious.[/quote]

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