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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is entirely self motivated and puts enormous pressure on themselves to do well.  It’s built in to their DNA.  I do everything in my power to push balance and breaks and a more wholesome worldview and emphasize that there is way more life than grades and scores.   Child is at Top 10.

I couldn’t force child to be different and child was innately different than many of my peers children who were telling them to go study and put their phone away etc.  I didn’t do anything differently but I do feel like some of it is just who a child is.  These parents wanted their kids to do well but the bottom line is that the child has to want it.  And most kids aren’t built for the real slog.  They want to get into fancy school at the end of the day but they aren’t grinding for every single point on every single assignment. They just — rightly - don’t care in the same way.  And that’s fine.  It’s not a judgment.  You just can’t really know or predict or force it.  [/quote]

Agree with this. There are kids out there who are just incredibly self driven and you either have one of you don't and 99% of us don't. Many of us have smart kids but we don't have outlier driven kids. I don't but in the course of raising my 3 children I met some of these kids. They stand out. [/quote]

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