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Originally Posted by raging moderate
ok what I meant by that is that people worry too much about letting their kids have fun and not work too hard.
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Crock. Ever heard of balance?
Just because parents want their kids to experience the joy of actually being a kid doesn't suggest that hard work and discipline aren't important. Part of this childhood joy is achievement and parent pleasing.
Constantly raising the bar works for kids who have fun, too. And study, statistics or real life, I vote for real life. In my real life, the kids whose parents showered them with love, encouraged playtime and allowed them to explore on their own, providing the tools and materials the kid were drawn to, had kids who all grew into extremely successful adults.
Of those who were raised in a much stricter, more rigid environment, very few of us are what most of you would consider successful. Rebellion has it's cost.
I don't buy any of the studies. We all know they're meaningless as it's impossible to get a true sampling. Take two kids in the same environment, same genetic material, same schools ... different outcomes most likely. Which all proves absolutely nothing. Except that we're all different and based, most likely, on psychological differences, outcomes will vary.