Reply to If you "tiger mom'd" your kids, how did they turn out in college (and beyond)

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "If you "tiger mom'd" your kids, how did they turn out in college (and beyond)"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to HYP and still won't forgive my tiger parents. They robbed me of happiness in my formative years that wasn't fully regained until my 40s.[/quote]

My wife has 4 degrees, including a Ph.D. from Harvard, and I also have 4 degrees, including a joint MBA and JD.  Every year, we spend well over $100,000 on our children's education and we can indulge our children in that space (private school, regular study abroad to Mexico and France, private lessons).

The ONLY thing that we insist on is that our children be happy and love what they are doing.  GPA, class rank, test scores, shpaaa.

Why?  Because I have never come across a great lawyer [or fill in the blank professional] who didn't love being a lawyer [or fill in the blank professional].  I don't understand parents who put so much pressure on children to do well academically that the children start to hate academics.  If you hate what you are doing, you won't be good at it.[/quote]

Considering I have literally never met a lawyer that loves being a lawyer…not sure what you are suggesting.  Again…never…sure some may enjoy it many, many more tolerate it for the money…but none would ever say they love it.  A bunch of these folks are good to great lawyers.

The world would have far fewer lawyers (likely a good thing) if the standard was living the job.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics