Do the (low or high) expectations friends or family have for their children ever shock you?

[sylvan8798]

@OldFashioned1

the most popular outgoing gregarious confident students at my children’s school are all A’s, sports, clubs, volunteering, etc. it’s cool to be gunning for an elite school and a high status career.

I have a nephew who went to a relatively elite school and is gunning for a high status career. S, OTOH, couldn’t care less about the college eliteness or high status of his career. He’s way less “cool”. Sometimes it saddens me that H would probably trade kids in a heartbeat. I can’t imagine how I could be any more proud of S than I am.