Reaction when your children don't accomplish the same educational achievements that you did?

[SlitheyTove]

I attended a friend’s son’s funeral the other day. I attended my cousin’s son’s funeral last year. A boy in my son’s dorm was found dead of an overdose on Mother’s Day. Any time I feel “disappointed,” I kick myself and remember what those parents would do to be “disappointed” in their kids one more time. Anyone who complains about their children failing to meet academic and professional expectations obviously has never experienced anything other than First-World Problems, and should merely be grateful for that. My husband and I are deadbeat slackers with very elite educational credentials. We ask nothing from our children beyond that they do everything they can to outlive us.

This. woogzmama nailed it.