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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t push my kids to succeed academically. I don’t care if they do extracurriculars. Don’t care if they go to college or not. Most of our evenings and weekends are just spent chilling at home. [/quote]

Same!!! I find it absurd, honestly. [/quote]

Why have kids if you don't want them to do well in life and be successful?[/quote]

DP but in my family experience the ones who went to college didn’t get anything out of it. We aren’t wealthy and my family spent a lot of money for these degrees.
Myself: degree in biochemistry, now work part time doing low level science
Husband: degree, has paper pusher job
Sister: degree, married well, doesn’t work
Female Cousin: degree, married well, doesn’t work
Male cousins: no degree, make more than the rest of us combined doing manual labor/trades
So I know what my sons should aim for.
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Frankly, you and your family sounds dumb. You should have chosen more in-demand degrees in college.  For that, you needed the kind of academic chops that only develops by consistent, long term curiosity and hard work.  Or you could have pivoted.

Parents are a key component in the academic guidance and support that children need to reach there. [/quote]

Non-professional parents aren’t in a place to guide their children though. I remember my parents pushed hard for me to do engineering and I fought hard for pre-med, but caved in and did math instead. They then pushed for accounting but caved in second round.

Now my engineering friends are making 120k in their 40s and I make 3x that. [/quote]

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