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Originally Posted by adpiucf
Part of it is parenting. The teacher is wrong, the tests are wrong, the coach is wrong, my kid likes candy so why not let him have it, etc... Kids grow up being told how great and wonderful and perfect they are: Is it any wonder that they come to recruitment and are crushed to be cut from the sororities after the first day? They've never been told before that they're anything but perfectly wonderful.
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Not to add too much to the mini-hijack (
) but I was talking to a coworker whose child has a learning disability that they are seeking help for. She was telling me about a friend of hers who would not admit to her own child's LD, so the child suffered unnecessarily when he could have been in some sort of therapy/training to overcome the disability. FINALLY, the parent realized that the child was really struggling and was not the perfect (in her own mind) child she had built him up to be. So, now the child is getting the attention he needs and is finally not completely frustrated by school.
/hijack