Comments on: Can Pushy Parenting Lead to Successful Kids?

By: jaelynn zee

jaelynn zee — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 03:00:14 +0000

The medals are insane. I was the star player all through high school in field hockey and soccer and we didn't really get medals in the 80s and 90s. I think I got one tiny one, that the whole team got when my junior league soccer team took first place. Participation medals are a joke!

By: Gabriel Casimiro

Gabriel Casimiro — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 03:00:14 +0000

He will get to a point where the "no failing" attitude destroys him because he will never feel good enough for his parents. They are setting him up for failure by expecting him not to fail.

By: Sarah Adler

Sarah Adler — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 03:00:14 +0000

His future might be guaranteed, but what about just being a kid.

By: Mercedes Foster

Mercedes Foster — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 03:00:14 +0000

It's called a global village.

By: Savannah Spanish

Savannah Spanish — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 03:00:14 +0000

WHO THE HELL WROTE IN PURPLE SCRIPT ON MY DAMN WHITEBOARD?!

By: Oksana cooper

Oksana cooper — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 03:00:14 +0000

Successful Children are those who are independent. They are not letting him be independent.

By: Henry Hui

Henry Hui — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 03:00:14 +0000

I don't care if they're strict I d want those parents if would become successful

By: Holy Atheist

Holy Atheist — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 03:00:14 +0000

These parents need to take child development classes. Believe it or not there is a right and a wrong way to raise a child. Not allowing a child to cry and telling him he's a "crybaby" if he does is wrong, plain and simple. It is developmentally appropriate to cry at that age, in fact, crying to receive sadness, stress, and frustration is appropriate at all ages and it's actually good for you. Please, before you adopt a parenting style that is considered by others to be "extreme" read the research on it.

By: kevin 8039

kevin 8039 — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 03:00:14 +0000

I have a friend that has super bad anxiety and says he's feels that it's because his parents pushed him too hard when he was growing up. Once we got to college he pretty much completely broke ties with them and doesn't plan on reconciling with them.

By: phthisicy

phthisicy — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 03:00:14 +0000

"Successful" defined how?
I hope these parents are not surpised someday if they wake up and realize they just survived a murder attempt. But then maybe the child will be successful.
If there were some accident and the child died tomorrow, would they regret never having let him be happy? Children are not small adults – they are beings unto themselves and exist in the here and now. They deserve happiness and respect now.