Race to Nowhere

ssacdfamily
Mon, 02 May 2011 23:03:44 +0000

Don’t have an answer about “why” the pressure is so high. Wish I did.

If the kids have some inner energy, they can probably figure it out - they will decide how to balance academics and ECs to suit their own long-term vision of their life.

TV probably gets in the way. Video games probably get in the way.

We can set some long-term expectations - “we expect you to respect your school, and the effort we are putting into supplying it to you”. or “we expect you to try to earn your own living, and pay your own way for the lifestyle you want.”

We can model what we would like to see from them - turn off or limit the TV for ourselves, have some ECs of our own, demonstrate our own judgment on the trade-off of money and values.

And then…hope and pray, I suppose.