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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i appreciated this more when you wanted your child crushed by college. [/quote]

Well I didn’t want to say it, but I do want her taken down a notch in high school. It’s a big world and she needs to know it.

I came from a small town, local “whiz kid” and my elite college destroyed me that I think my life would have been better at my state public university. Being on your own and failing at everything when everyone seems to find it so easy, not a good place. [/quote]

I’ll be the one to say it 😬

Feels like you may have some unresolved issues.

Don’t thrust those onto your own kids. [/quote]

Hah I do. But my kid is full teenager and so arrogant about how smart they are. It drives me nuts. I mean, maybe she is really brilliant and hard working?  But I want to test her mettle before she has to head out on her own. Her MS experience has not done that. [/quote]

This is getting a little creepy and I’m starting to feel a bit bad for your child. I think you are supposed to pick the school that will best help her to succeed and grow into the best version of herself. You should not be picking a school to spite her or humble her or “take her down a peg.” It’s not healthy that you appear to feel some kind of intellectual competition with her. Maybe let her pick her own high school and don’t make it about you at all. Is her other parent involved in this decision? [/quote]

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