So, Bob, you don't have any kids, right?

Scotty



"Bob Crantz" wrote in message
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Yes, they all do great and wonderful things under the
control/tutelage of
controlling/demanding parents.

After a few years out of the nest what do they become on
their own device?

Take our own CWM. The finest private schools, then on to
Harvard. Where has
he ventured when he became captain of his own ship?
Someone help shove him
off of the sandbar of life.

The lists of accomplishments, the awards, the schools all
mean nothing. They
are simply tools. Some are given great tools but go on to
mediocrity.
Others, out of nothing go on to greatness. The
psychological torture must be
extreme for those who are supplied with the mightiest of
tools and bouyed by
the highest of expectations and go on to find they are
happiest in a
position that disappoints all those whose shoulders they
stood upon.

The greatest thing a parent can do is arm their child to
think for
themselves, to help them find out who and what they are
and give them the
courage to pursue and be that. To have a child make up for
things a parent
missed out on in life is a neurotic upbringing. The child
exists to fill a
void of another person rather than to add another
dimension to one's life.
How selfish and cruel!

Amen!