<p>How academically pressuring do you plan to be on your child?</p>
<p>I've told my friends I would have them know calculus by age 12. And Theoretical Physics by age 15. Annotating complex literary works at 10. (Yeah right)</p>
<p>Ok, they would be expected to be top of the line, top 10 rank in school.</p>
<p>I don’t think I can assign an age by which time they’ll know calculus, or decide a rank they must be, but I would put academic pressure on them.</p>
<p>i am going to have my kids in private school until their Junior year in HS, that way they will come and be top 10 kids,</p>
<p>i will just make sure they learn what they need to know</p>
<p>pierrechn don’t you think that’s kind of mean to make them switch schools junior year just to make their ranks higher?
i would put some pressure, but he/she needs to follow his/her own dreams too. if he/she’s not amazing at math, i’m not going to force him/her to do it day in and day out. ill help him/her succeed to the best of his/her abilities. if she’s lazy though… goodness help her :P</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ll put too much pressure. I think there will probably be a rule of when you get home from school it’s to the dining room table to do homework, at least when they’re in middle/elementary school, just to establish habits. If they’re trying a decent amount I’ll have a good amount of leniency. I’ll be bad when it comes to activities though–music lessons, karate, swimming, dance, etc. So busy.</p>
<p>na @rainbowrose its just a strategy lol, or maybe their sophomore year, but they will be transferring</p>
<p>I will ensure that from a certain age, they have a minimum “Me” level of mathematics competency. Activities wise… they’re doing MUN, then they’ll grow. And when it comes down to High School, they can do either AP or IB, but they must pick 1. Or I move back to Va, they can apply to TJ which has AP.</p>
<p>My kids won’t have to make any better grades than I made (which shouldn’t be too hard). And if they suck at sports I could care less as long as they have fun.</p>
<p>If my kids are anything like I was, I don’t think I really want any…</p>
<p>I am going to have a reward system, the better the grades the more choices.
so from an early age they will want high grades</p>
<p>20 for each A
10 for each B
0 for each C</p>
<p>so i will either pay them that for each report card, or just add it all up at the end of the year
(as long as i have the money to afford paying them lol)</p>
<p>^, Yeah my kids will have choices in activities, but if they’re gang-related, it’s lockdown.</p>
<p>If they’re like me, I’m making sure they have a social life.</p>
<p>Child… Future…</p>
<p>L0L</p>
<p>I don’t want to hand a poor kid the problems we are causing today to our planet, society, etc. I’m not interested in one. =)</p>
<p>considering how much my dad forced me to do math problems when i was younger, when i’m not a math person at ALL, i feel like i wouldn’t put any pressure on my kids. except for i probs will-just enough keep them motivated. but nothing like ‘iron fist’ parenting, like i had to go through :\ lol.</p>
<p>“I’ll be bad when it comes to activities though–music lessons, karate, swimming, dance, etc. So busy.”</p>
<p>totes agree with this. my parents only let me do a couple of activities when i was super young & then got mad when i wanted to quit [at like age 10], lol. i still regret having never fully learned how to play the piano. maybe i can give it another go over the summer :] but i think it’s def important to expose your kids to different things so they can figure out what they like/are good at.</p>
<p>true… If they are a sports person, I will make sure they put their best effort into it</p>
<p>Nobel Prize by age 10.</p>
<p>I’ll just encourage them to do their best… but they should be able to get at least straight B’s, at worst.</p>
<p>“I’ll be bad when it comes to activities though–music lessons, karate, swimming, dance, etc. So busy.”</p>
<p>exposure to lots of different activities is good =) I played piano, tennis, lacrosse, volleyball, karate, soccer, softball, guitar, basketball, was in choir, ballet, jazz, hip hop, swimming, ice skating, and gymnastics when I was in elementary school.</p>
<p>I continued the activities I liked into middle school (piano, tennis, lacrosse, volleyball, basketball, choir, and hip hop). Then now, in high school, I narrowed my list down to tennis, piano, guitar, and hip hop (and break dancing). I loved that I got to experience all those activities earlier in my life. It made me a better athlete, and gave me a chance to explore things I may have not tried.</p>
<p>^^ sorry for the long, rambling post</p>
<p>^ That would be my unrealistic goal… well unless I entirely taught them everything and they understood by age 5.</p>
<p>my bad i see breakdancing</p>
<p>“I played piano, tennis, lacrosse, volleyball, karate, soccer, softball, guitar, basketball, was in choir, ballet, jazz, hip hop, swimming, ice skating, and gymnastics when I was in elementary school.”</p>
<p>lol, u/your parents did not mess around! :]</p>
<p>lol. I guess just football, robotics, basketball, soccer, baseball, choir, was not enough for me.</p>