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So now getting into a top college is more important than being a functional person? Failing when your an adult is more than getting a bruised knee: It's gettin

So now getting into a top college is more important than being a functional person? Failing when your an adult is more than getting a bruised knee: It's getting stuck in a job you hate, ending up in a bad marriage and becoming sick/obese because you don't know how to take care of yourself. All of those things happen because people don't know what works for them. The reason they don't know that is because other people have told them how to live their entire lives.

scarmig 11y ago
It's not evident that so called "helicopter parenting" and getting into a top college causes any of the above. First and last are anti-correlated with it, and I wouldn't be surprised if the second is too. Obviously some people overdo it, but superior life outcomes and being a functional adult seem to go with heavily involved parenting.
- ThomPete 11y ago
  Heavily involved parenting doesn't mean helicopter parenting and thats something thats very important to understand.
- fsloth 11y ago
  Involved parenting is not about controlling ones child (well, not directly, most of the time), nor protecting them from lifes bad outcomes.