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What's with all the crazy tween stories lately? I understand wanting your child to do extracurriculars for college admissions, but it's getting ridiculous.

• atoav 8y ago
  Crazy like kids doing stuff with computers they impossibly can understand at their age. Kids should do whatever the hell interests them? Whether she is pushed by her parents to do this or it is her free will, is hard to judge just from that article. It is however not impossible. I knew a guy who has an incredible passion for chess at a young age. So much so, his parents had to push him to do anything but it. He later studied electrical engineering and turned oit fine. I knew a guy who was constantly pushed to be the best in his sports team by his father who happened to be the trainer. His son had incredible potential, but his father was terrible, yelling, just blaming everything on the kid. We lost a lot, because we were often one or two players short and he punched his son for that in front of us more than once. This son turned into an alcoholic, and then lived with his father who separated from the mother. He was 20 when he shot his father (who was also a hunter) with 12 bullets and then shot himself. Don’t force your kids. Guide them. If they have genuine fun to do stuff that is to hard or too grown up for kids, show support, help them understand it. Dont push them to hard unless it is the little push they need because they are afraid. Don’t decide what is useful and what isn’t. They need to learn deciding that for themselves