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Parents dream to make their children become famous.
posted by
adventurer02
on July 1, 2015 at 4:21 AM
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One doctor, one lawyer, one accountant, one plumber, one literary agent, one publisher...
wait, I ran out of kids...Seems like I read that advice somewhere though about raising the kids to provide the family with all the most essential (and expensive) services.
posted by
DarrkeThoughts
on September 14, 2006 at 10:22 PM
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I think your laid back attitude may have a good effect on your kids.
And at least it's not the other sort of laid back (as the parents of the boy who was nearly going under!)
posted by
nonconformist
on September 11, 2006 at 1:00 PM
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well if I pinned my hope on my children, where would that leave me???
dead! and I am not joking so don't do this to yourself proud mothers and fathers, your child's achievement is something to be proud of, you take some of the credit but leave the rest of the credit to the child or the discredit.
posted by
marieclaire66
on September 10, 2006 at 3:12 AM
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Azur, wasn't it John Lennon who wrote, "Life is what happens when you're
busy making other plans?" Ironic, for him to say, I suppose, as THE rock star of his and any other age. I am the last one to step on anyone's dreams. Sometimes it's all there is to get through the day. That and a decent cup of coffee.
As for your friends at the pool, while they were arguing over who was going to fish their son out, was he going down for the third time?
posted by
Blanche.
on September 9, 2006 at 5:59 PM
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azur--
it's a good thing I only have cats to worry about, lol.
I like the sports/writing comparison, I believe it is spot on!
posted by
Julia.
on September 9, 2006 at 9:31 AM
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remember the phrase and title, "Blown Through Life Sideways"
and that over 60% of people with college degrees wind up not working in the field they degree'd in.
(Is that a word??)
posted by
majroj
on September 8, 2006 at 8:48 PM
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Not to mention frustrating!
I think I'll tell my son not to spend too much time planning for a career in sports. It always pays to have education, no matter what.
posted by
word.smith
on September 8, 2006 at 8:02 PM
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You can say that agian!
posted by
Whacky
on September 8, 2006 at 5:28 PM
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posted by
Rosetree
on September 8, 2006 at 3:18 PM
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my brother wanted to be a baseball player and pinned his hopes on it for
way too long. The scouts gave him a "quick" look, but his grades weren't good enough to get him into a big college program where he'd really be noticed. Took a while for reality to settle in. Once it did, he had to figure out what he really was going to do with his life.
I think that big dreams are great if the talent is there to back it up. It's like watching the American Idol tryouts. Why haven't their parents told them they just can't sing???
posted by
-blackcat
on September 8, 2006 at 2:40 PM
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