UrbanBaby

07.04.08, 08:18 AM General Topics
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Any other non NY / Manhattan moms embarrassed and sad for the moms who seem to do nothing but scheme and dream of ways to get their children into Ivy league schools ? I wonder what would happen if the kids were actually allowed to apply to and attend the schools that interested them. I guess the stickers on the back of the cars wouldn't be as impressive... [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
General Topics 07.04.08, 08:18 AM Flag

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I'm a non US Mom living in NY and I'm amused by the chaos surrounding the schools process here. I totally understand parents wanting the best for their kids but it just all seems so nuts. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.04.08, 08:42 AM Flag

is schooling like this where you are from ? what is it generally like there ? [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.04.08, 09:27 AM Flag

I live in NYC and am puzzled by it. Way too much energy and ambition tied up in kindergarten. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.04.08, 08:54 AM Flag

OP I think it's really so strange and almost pathological the obsession they seem to have to go IVY at all cost. My parents were Manhattanites (as is DH) but we now live in the South and I feel like I'm reading something that should be written about in psych journals. We all want the best for our kids, we all want them to succeed and have ebery opportunity, etc tec. This is so much more about the parents than the kids when it gets to the levels I'm reading about here... [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.04.08, 09:14 AM Flag

absolutely. it's a combo of needing the validation of having a top tier child (and that starts at preconception here, hence the rise of the $900 stroller) and a twisted sense of competition. Part of the child as designer accessory trend [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.04.08, 09:17 AM Flag

ITA. It makes you feel sorry for the poor "idiot" kid who can only go to *eek* Northwestern or a "lesser-Ivy" like Penn ! [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.04.08, 09:19 AM Flag

I always wonder what happends to the kids who really aren't too bright, or just don't have the type a, aggressive personality to succeed at all costs--do the parents conder themselves failures? Or kids like my best friend, who get into harvard, have a nervous breakdown, and end up happily going to culinary school? [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.04.08, 09:21 AM Flag

And somewhere is a kid who would have thrived at Harvard but didn't get to go because the kid who would have loved to be trusted enough and loved enough to follow his ambition was pushed into Harvard ! It's an ugly thing - this competition for status schools - and it seems to be praised here. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.04.08, 09:23 AM Flag

i worry to think that the parents think their children are failures [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.04.08, 09:25 AM Flag