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[quote=Anonymous]Haven't read all these responses but you need to find some way to check your type A expectations at the door. First of all, I can't believe that you can't find something wonderful about your child. I'm a similar type to you and both my kids are different from me in many respects but I can look at each of them at some moment in every day and think wow, what an amazing kid.

For example, my 4th grader is a solid student but seems to be the only kid in Bethesda who's not gifted or doing compacted math. He's not particularly athletic or interested in sports very much either - all stuff that mattered in the house where I grew up. But he has his own interests, and it's just awesome to watch him pursue them. Right now he's obsessed with Greek mythology from a unit at school. And the best part is that he is so comfortable with who he is - he is genuinely happy and doesn't get bothered about fitting in.

He won't go to an Ivy League school in all likelihood and may never play varsity anything (see, I can't even say never on those, I still hope that he will.) But I'm so thrilled that he is a bright, interested, confident kid - something that he probably didn't get from a neurotic type A mother - and I think that self-confidence will serve him really well in the long run.[/quote]

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