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Adversity is the rock against which you sharpen your knife. If that rock is always covered with silk pillows, you are going to grow up dull indeed. You would
by rdiddly 8y ago
Adversity is the rock against which you sharpen your knife. If that rock is always covered with silk pillows, you are going to grow up dull indeed.
You would think money would, while maybe not buying happiness, at least free you from the kind of sniveling, insecure, desperate worrying these parents seem to be engaged in. Apparently not. "We're just one Harvard rejection away from totally still having plenty of money OMG!!!" It's like their brains have been hijacked. It's like being in that movie "They Live" before finding the magic sunglasses.
- bredren 8y agoI think one problem for these folks is there isn't much to upgrade to for themselves. But there is intergenerational social status that can be "attained" and peacocked at just the right moment. Parents are naturally proud of the "accomplishments" of their children. But I think in the case of the USC "students" and this school it was probably more about the desires of the children to be at a particular place among their peers.
- almost_usual 8y agoI'm assuming it's another status symbol these parents feel they need to have in order to 'fit in'.