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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you mean that they’re okay if their kids drop out of high school and never get real jobs? Or do you just mean that they’re okay if their kids get a “normal” or even blue collar job instead of being a doctor? Also, what do you mean by “expectations for service”?[/quote]

I took it to mean they look at the absolute worst screw ups in town and basically tell themselves as long as their kids aren't [i]that[/i] bad, they did a swell job. The bar and expectations are basically nonexistent and they seemed convinced they were doing a pretty darn good job. They were talking like small-minded trashy people but you look at them and see two normal healthy middle class parents.[/quote]

[b]What is small-minded and trashy about giving your kids room to figure out who they are and what motivates them rather than pushing them through a forced grind that burns them out and leaves them focused more on what you want for them than what they want for themselves[/b].[/quote]

+1.  Love this.  [/quote]

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