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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]

NP: I think you are on the right track, personally. My kids went from being tops at what we felt was a too-easy school where they developed lazy study habits to a HS known for rigor. My kids didn't know what hit them. Worked twice as hard and got much worse grades. College is super easy for them now, they know the difference between smart and had working, and they have a pretty good perspective one who is hard working and who is a never-been-tested blow hard. [/quote]

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