Parents Using College Acceptances to Compete

straightshooter
Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:26:17 +0000

To me its pretty simple. Those people who obnoxiously brag about their kids are vicariously living their lives through them. You don;t need to have taken Psych 101 to realize that most of those people are probably unhappy how their own lives turned out and they console themselves with their children’s success and accomplishments.

For example i have a co-worker who I can unbiasedly say is a mess. But get him talking about his kids Little League stats and how he is going to get a D-1 scholarship one day and it allows him to forget about his own failures.

Whether it is sports or academics the same principle applies.