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Re:Why Affluent Parents Put So Much Pressure on Their Kids by runawaybottle on Sunday July 04, 2021 @03:44PM (#27732090)
Well, it’s always easier to just make someone else do something to attain you things in life. Not that high up on the status totem pole? Make your kid climb it. It’s just easier. Not that rich for that house? Make sure your kid brings you in on that new house. Never went to college, but always wanted to be a doctor? Make your kid do it. Force them to, drop all your bullshit onto them.

A boss is a boss, dominance is dominance.

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Re:Why Affluent Parents Put So Much Pressure on Their Kids by raincom on Sunday July 04, 2021 @04:13PM (#27732270)
That’s one way to look at the phenomenon. Parents want to have their kids achieve what they could not achieve due to mistakes or because of bad mentoring. They want to give a leg up for their kids. If one wants to win a game that has outsized prizes, people train for it, and they teach kids and grandkids, etc.

Sure, if kids can’t cope up with their pressures, either parents have to give up or some of these kids end up committing suicide.

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