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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid brought home an 84 and I lost it. Since then, worse grades. I dialed in the pressure cooker. How do I dial it back? Have you been there?

I know I did wrong. I took way too many marbles out of her jar. Too much pressure too soon. She’s cracking to please me, not herself. She was fine before I intervened. I feel awful and responsible for bringing too much negativity into her life.

For the record, we expect straight A’s. She’s capable of this. It’s like I ruined her psyche.[/quote]

For the record, do you also expect a suicidal kid? Because that's what you are risking.[/quote]
DP.
Oh, puhleeze, stop it with suicidal bullshit! Kids who are suicidal aren't suicidal because their parents 'expect an A'. [/quote]

Some are. I used to work in adolescent mental health and definitely saw kids whose suicidal behavior was driven by feeling trapped by their parents expectations. Parental approval and parental support and parental pressure and expectation matters a lot more to teens than they let on. [/quote]

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