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[quote=Anonymous]My dad always used the 'investment' analogy.  WHen my sister married someone he didn't approve of, he wrote her out of the family.  Said she was a bad investment who didn't perform up to his expectations.

You better believe that affected my parenting.  HOnestly, though, what affected my parenting the most was coming to know God when my children were toddlers.  I believe strongly that God has a plan for each of my children's lives and that it is up to me to support them in the gifts that they have been given, not to yell and scream at them to become the people I want them to be.  More than anything, though, I didn't want my children to grow up believing that they were broken and in need of repair, or that I was disappointed in them for not living up to my standards.

Yes, we did homework.  Yes, I kept track of grades.  But I also listened to them when they told me what excites them about academics and extracurriculars.  Last year I watched my daughter play a concerto with her university's orchestra and had a son surprise the heck out of me when he told me he wanted to be an econ major!  I have a child who wants to spend their junior year in India!  None of these are things I would have necessarily planned.  And I'm glad I let them blossom and show me who they were meant to become, rather than having me force them to be engineers.[/quote]

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