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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The first step is to recognize that you don’t actually value education and achievement above all… you value parental bragging rights.  That is why you are so concerned about these things when your child is only seven years old.  You aren’t bothered by the alleged mediocrity you see around you.  [b]You are bothered because you are surrounded by people who are unimpressed[/b] that Larla takes violin AND piano and will therefore not give the “world’s bestest mother” validation you clearly crave.

That said, the only solution is to move.  The chill people in your town are unlikely to change and will continue to be deeply unimpressed by your striving.[/quote]

This is it. Unfortunately, OP will be just as unfulfilled in a tiger parent environment where nothing is ever good enough to impress other parents because some other tiger parent is doing it better than you. Such an exhausting way of life.[/quote]

What a weird claim.  That is not what I took from this at all.  Do you think the mothers of Bethesda (and other type A parents in competitive schools) would be impressed that OP does math supplements?

Living in an area like (well, probably worse) than what OP describes, I completely understand her question.  [/quote]

I’m a mother in Bethesda and my kids are doing exactly what OP describes. Skip counting and addition to 20 in first grade, first instrument though school in fourth grade. That’s pretty standard in public schools. It happens that one of my kids does play an instrument outside of school but that’s because he asked to. And he only started it in third grade so he’s not exactly a prodigy.

What I see as “tiger” around here are the competitive sports. My kids are active but not sporty, but some of their friends are on multiple travel teams and it consumes their whole weekend and social life. No thanks. [/quote]

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