<p>We've all seen them. President of 4 million and a half clubs. Volunteers for 170+ a week. Takes all the challenging classes at school. Has a 4.0 GPA, 36 on their ACT and/or 2400 on their SAT. Never gets in trouble. Doesn't have many friends because their too into studying for the next "thing". Maybe even stays afterschool to learn more. Would you want your kid to be like that? Would you want an extremely, or maybe even obsessively, overachieving child?</p>
<p>I know I wouldn't. I don't know why. I'd rather have a kid that messes up. A kid that doesn't understand everything at first. A kid who can knows how to have fun and can get crazy sometimes. </p>
<p>I’m a fairly unconventional student with a hefty disciplinary record and a history of low academic achievement. I’m also interested in radical left-wing politics. Therefore, having a “perfect” child, in a way, would be a nightmare. </p>
<p>Although I’m not interested in having children, if I had to, I would much rather my child be more unorthodox.</p>
<p>That not a “perfect” student by my definition, Niquii.
My “perfect” student would be an overachiever with the perfect score and all that. but one of the most popular person in school. Plays in sports. Doesn’t have to be president of various clubs (gotta be honest here there can only be ONE president of each club). Plays an instruments and never get in trouble but also take risks.</p>
<p>Only if that’s what (s)he would want. I wouldn’t force them to become superchildren but if their personality is naturally overachieving, then I wouldn’t object to it or say that I don’t want it.</p>
<p>Anyone 16+ with that much spare time outside of studying should get a job. (Sadly, it took me a few seconds to realize you can’t do anything for 170 hours a week.)
15-20 hours a week, if possible. It’s taught me more about life than volunteering ever has.</p>
<p>“Would you want a kid who always does stuff right, always gets the bet grades/scores, always cleans up, etc?”</p>
<p>Those kids creep me out. I always think they’re plotting something. I don’t really want to have kids, but if I do, I don’t want them to be robots.</p>
<p>I would want a kid that is naturally smart and gets good grades with so little effort that you’d want them to see what they could do with effort. I’d like them to be popular and well liked, like student body president type popular. Athleticism is a plus. I’d like them to be a good kid, but not perfect. I want them to get into some trouble, nothing like drugs or guns, but I really dont want some nerd.</p>
<p>All American boy steadfast in his faith with excellent grades tons of hours a side business A top athlete. And tons of clingy girls on him ready for whenever
Yes that would be awesome if he were the spitting image of me</p>
<p>I am not really ambitious for my child, I just plan on getting a doctorate in Biology at a high-caliber technological school such as MIT, Harvard, or Stanford so I can obtain the ability to genetically engineering my child so he/she will have an IQ of 210+ along with an impeccable physical, musical, and social skills. By the time he/she is two, I will drill science, language, politics, and math in him/her, so when he/she leaves middle school, he/she shall already have mastered several advanced mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology courses, all while achieving a 2400 on the SAT and being fluent in fifteen different languages and having enough political and economic influence and leverage to alone manipulate a small third-word country such as Burkina Faso. Later on, I will indoctrinate him/her into a philosophy which states that valedictorians are supreme and pure human beings that will ascend to godhood, salutatorians become their right-hand man(or woman), the top 10% of the class will transcend to angels, while the bottom 90% suffer eternal damnation, so he/she shall spend of his/her free time studying, often forsaking sleep for a perfect 4.0 while taking all the APs CollegeBoard has to offer along with IBs. Once he/she graduates high-school as valedictorian, he/she will go to a HYPSM school and double major in biology and physics, where he/she will achieve a 4.0 throughout their college years, then they will go on to obtain a masters and doctorates in these respective fields and make ground-breaking discoveries in physics and biology, which will literally allow them to ascend to godhood, and dominate mankind for the remaining eons until the universe’s heat death as the supreme God-Emperor or Empress. Soon I, the newly-crowned Father of the Universal God-Emperor/Empress, shall forever rule humanity by proxy. My will shall become law, my desires shall shape reality, and my philosophies shall become the universal truth. All nations shall crumble by the sound of my voice. It will be a perfect world, ruled by a perfect man who doles out perfect justice. If my child fails any of the above, he/she shall be punished most severely. <em>Evil laugh</em></p>
<p>But seriously, I will probably hold him/her to my standards. Possibly higher due to all the grade inflation that has been plaguing American high schools as of late.</p>
<p>Eh, I wouldn’t want my kid to be obsessively compelled to sacrifice their life to try to achieve perfection in school or extracurricular areas, but if they were just naturally a perfectionist in that way, then sure. I would admire their drive, focus, and ambition. I’d probably just hold them to my own standards, though, or whatever standards I felt were their own personal best. I think I’d just hope for the best for my child, whether that be well-rounded perfection or simply achievement in a singular area of life. If they were “perfect” though (pretending that perfection is even possible), I would hope that they’d have a fun side to balance out their anal retentiveness.</p>
<p>It depends on how my college experience and if I can get a sustainable job goes…
If it goes well, I might as well not seek to make him perfect but to follow in my footsteps.</p>
<p>But if his priorities are right, I might as well aim to make him do much better than I did–I’ll try to “spoil” him–that’s if he proves that he’s worthy of the rewards I have in mind for him :)</p>
<p>I want my kids to be happy. I want them to get good enough grades to set themselves up for what they want to do with their lives. I could never ask for more.</p>