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[quote=Anonymous]Jesus, good luck to you people. I had hands-off parents who praised outcomes rather than process, and turned out incredibly risk-averse but still pretty successful in a profession I could do in my sleep. I'll try to raise my daughters differently because I think I understand better what the pressure of accomplishment can do to sensitive kids.

But there's a bigger point to be made here. Beyond what "reward" system your child develops or becomes accustomed to, I really hope you all have elastic kids that just shrug off the fact that their parents so obviously value them, in part, based on how they perform ACADEMICALLY.

No, you say? You're posting in an anonymous forum hoping for support from other overbearing parents regarding the fact that you yell at your kid all the time to do better in school! You sit your child down after they perform badly to work with them on how they can perform better (read: please YOU) better in the future! Your child is 10 YEARS OLD!

I don't get it, I really don't. Some people on this site write as if they're strategizing how to win the Mommy Olympics. I hope that medal you get after 18 years when your child gets into a lesser Ivy is worth the 10 years of yelling, cajoling, and deprivation you put your child through. I mean, my word, the alternative is...a STATE SCHOOL [shudder]. Happy kid, schmappy kid, can't have a STATE SCHOOL.[/quote]

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