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Are you ever sad when you hear about highly successful kids?
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 460917" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Maybe I've lived too long. But I've seen SO many "successful" young adults become total washouts before they get to be 35. Total disasters. And so... I tend to discount "success". Those who have to work harder for what they get, tend to do better. The kid who fights for a high-B average... and then goes to tech school, and gets going in the right direction... and then adds a 4-yr degree (or a 2-yr extension degree...)... THESE are the people that tend to make a difference in this world. The journeyman machinist who ends up being a HS shop teacher... with a heart for kids who struggle, for example. "Successful" people ... usually are not even on my radar as "quality". And I'd rather have quality.</p><p></p><p>So... we help our kids struggle through. I think we just might make it. We celebrate each small success as it comes. And we do not allow our kids to measure themselves or anybody else by the usual measures of "success". We help them see the cost of some of this success... the sports star who never had a life, and so on. </p><p></p><p>But... my kids are "close" to normal. I'm not sure how I'd feel, if it was going to be a stretch for them to be independent, for example.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 460917, member: 11791"] Maybe I've lived too long. But I've seen SO many "successful" young adults become total washouts before they get to be 35. Total disasters. And so... I tend to discount "success". Those who have to work harder for what they get, tend to do better. The kid who fights for a high-B average... and then goes to tech school, and gets going in the right direction... and then adds a 4-yr degree (or a 2-yr extension degree...)... THESE are the people that tend to make a difference in this world. The journeyman machinist who ends up being a HS shop teacher... with a heart for kids who struggle, for example. "Successful" people ... usually are not even on my radar as "quality". And I'd rather have quality. So... we help our kids struggle through. I think we just might make it. We celebrate each small success as it comes. And we do not allow our kids to measure themselves or anybody else by the usual measures of "success". We help them see the cost of some of this success... the sports star who never had a life, and so on. But... my kids are "close" to normal. I'm not sure how I'd feel, if it was going to be a stretch for them to be independent, for example. [/QUOTE]
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