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[quote=Anonymous]Remember that book about 'queenbee moms and kingpin dads'?  What's fascinating about this scandal and the article that Caitlin Flanagan wrote in The Atlantic yesterday are that the kids are almost completely absent from the picture.

I just feel like a sucker.  I thought the way to 'prep' my kid for the gifted test was to take them to museums and children's theater, kids concerts.  Somebody else just bought the test online and fed it to their kids.  I was so clueless!

And I stupidly thought we were supposed to take the kids to visit campuses and find which one 'fit' our kids.  I thought they were supposed be involved in deciding what university to attend. Meanwhile, the kingpin dad did a backdoor deal and probably didn't even consider what the kid wanted, which university 'fit'.

I also stupidly thought that you were supposed to do Suzuki violin and piano with your kids without yelling and comparing them to other kids, and the object wasn't to make them hate music.  Then I read Amy Tan's book on tiger parenting where she yelled so much during Suzuki that her kid was gnawing on the piano out of frustration.  But so what!  She won the piano competition!  I was so clueless . . .

Lots of hypocrites out there.  [/quote]

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