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We're an Asian family living in Bethesda with kids from elementary to high school, and while I definitely see the mindfulness, low-competition, anti-comparison trend surging in neighboring elementary schools, it is not explicitly or even implicitly linked to Asian families. It's more because our area attracts wealthy, educated families from all ethnicities and nationalities, who have high educational standards and demand more challenge from the schools, and the schools and some progressive parents push back to protect young students' mental health.

In middle and high school, you can bet that all that stuff goes out of the window as college applications start looming in the most progressive parents' heads... :-)
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WTH?!? We’re in Bethesda too, WWHS specifically, but this post makes it seem like mental health is not something worth valuing. It’s BS that concern for mental health goes out the window as kids get older and it’s not just a “progressive” thing. Talk about stereotyping. [/quote]

I'm the PP you replied to. Being hysterical and uninformed makes you look even worse.

I've seen all the (mostly white, mostly long-time American) parents who in elementary school decried the competition and pressure and lamented the fact that childhood was for play and not homework, rethink their positions in middle school, and become the most stressed-out, competitive parents in high school, as well as the biggest spenders on resume-boosting trips, tutoring, prep classes, etc in high school. Too bad they didn't see that coming in elementary. You can't magically un-waste years of doing nothing by dropping $400/hr on SAT prep...

As for mindfulness, I am on the PTA board of my kids' schools and have contributed to the burgeoning mindfulness practice in MCPS, and teacher training at the elementary level, which to me is very important. Is it important to the majority of parents? Is it even on their radar? Of course not. Bethesda-area public schools are actually leading in that respect, as they've led in other things. In the years to come, mindfulness will be better valued for children in a school setting, but there's still a lot of outreach to do.

My point is that of the tortoise and the hare. You can panic and stress yourself out at the end of the race, or you can prepare throughout.

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yikes. [/quote]

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