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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I  didn’t read the thread but this post is why I hate living in the dmv. My kid is the same age and I havent given two thoughts to whether dc is “gifted” and I shut down every competitive convo like this. Talking to preschool parents about how special their kids are feels like I’m in a snl sketch. [/quote]

I had this thought too. I have an older kid but I don't sit around worrying about "giftedness." I do think the pressure and culture in the dmv is annoying in this respect.

But also when we visit friends and family elsewhere they can be just as intense if not more so about various kid things. I have a brother who lives far from this area who is insanely obsessed with sports and pressures his kids intensely not only to excel at sports but to develop niche abilities to boost their chances of athletic scholarships to specific schools. We have friends whose kids play multiple varsity sports while also taking like 10 APs and they live in places like Chicago and Arizona. A lot of this is just the current nature of upper middle class parenting. And it's not even that new. A lot of the peopel you see parenting this way do so because either they were parented that way and they think it helped them or they were NOT parented that way and they think it robbed them of opportunities. It is a parenting approach rooted in anxiety and fear of failure.[/quote]

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