This is excellent. There is such a fine line between encouraging and being proud of children and having their "success" be status markers for the parents. I realize it's a hard thing to navigate for supportive parents. My own parents had four children who responded very differently to undergraduate education, and took very different paths in life. So in hindsight, I appreciate their support for those who "did well" in that environment and those who flourished better following less conventional paths. A couple of my siblings probably would have done the best in a trade environment, they've come to realize. But I think there's a lot of pressure for kids with academically successful parents to stay in that lane for their own lives. I do hope the various trades gain more attention for those who will flourish in them!
With the insanity mind-raping has migrated from the universities into the k-12 grades, as well as the crippled-minded know-nothing-politicized programed Golem tools of Sickness encouraged to go to streets for The Cause that damages our Nation, West, Culture, and them ..
.. them with the false belief that they have something the rest of the world needs, when they are like the 'heckler's veto' to all that would have a chance to discuss and perhaps improve things, if those and others were educated enough to know how ignorant they are and to close mouth, listen, think, and ask when asking not a burden to discussion.
Anyone so insane as to support murder of babies, sex as choice, child crippling mutilating crimes, to hang-for, is likely to do nothing better than most women and fatherless mind-castrated dog males, spewing Satanic poison feces onto every gathering of men discussing and working on our real serious problems.
Sorry to need to finish this without some of my proposed solutions, but need to run. Perhasp later.
SO true! A kid should be loved and KNOW they are loved for who they are, and never feel that they are betraying their parents', family members' or community's expectations to achieve or meet a goal which is not their own. I think many HS graduates would do well to serve a military tour before starting college, or not!
Great article, as usual. One lesson -don’t live vicariously through your kids.
This is excellent. There is such a fine line between encouraging and being proud of children and having their "success" be status markers for the parents. I realize it's a hard thing to navigate for supportive parents. My own parents had four children who responded very differently to undergraduate education, and took very different paths in life. So in hindsight, I appreciate their support for those who "did well" in that environment and those who flourished better following less conventional paths. A couple of my siblings probably would have done the best in a trade environment, they've come to realize. But I think there's a lot of pressure for kids with academically successful parents to stay in that lane for their own lives. I do hope the various trades gain more attention for those who will flourish in them!
Spot on, as usual!
Love this. So true and something we as parents, need to be reminded of.
With the insanity mind-raping has migrated from the universities into the k-12 grades, as well as the crippled-minded know-nothing-politicized programed Golem tools of Sickness encouraged to go to streets for The Cause that damages our Nation, West, Culture, and them ..
.. them with the false belief that they have something the rest of the world needs, when they are like the 'heckler's veto' to all that would have a chance to discuss and perhaps improve things, if those and others were educated enough to know how ignorant they are and to close mouth, listen, think, and ask when asking not a burden to discussion.
Anyone so insane as to support murder of babies, sex as choice, child crippling mutilating crimes, to hang-for, is likely to do nothing better than most women and fatherless mind-castrated dog males, spewing Satanic poison feces onto every gathering of men discussing and working on our real serious problems.
Sorry to need to finish this without some of my proposed solutions, but need to run. Perhasp later.
God Bless., Steve
SO true! A kid should be loved and KNOW they are loved for who they are, and never feel that they are betraying their parents', family members' or community's expectations to achieve or meet a goal which is not their own. I think many HS graduates would do well to serve a military tour before starting college, or not!