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“ America is a young country, young and brash and prone to errors. Like teenagers. For all our inherent goodness, we’ve been cursed with bright, shiny object disease and we don’t want a cure. Not now. Not till we get our little taste, till our kids get theirs. ”

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The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.

~ Heather Choate Davis

Heather Choate Davis Fear Grit Helicopter Parents Parenting

Our own egos are so fragile we cannot bear to give our lives to the raising of children only to have them become ordinary people. There, I said it. The worst thing a 21st-century child of interesting parents could be: ordinary. Like us.

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Heather Choate Davis Average Ego Gifted Parenting

We fluff them and fold them and nudge them and enhance them and bind them and break them and embellish them beyond measure; then, as we drive them up to the college interviews that they’ve heard since birth are the gateway to the lives they were destined to lead based on nothing more than our own need for it to be true, we tell them, with a smile so tight it would crack nuts, “Just be yourself.”�

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Heather Choate Davis Be Yourself College Admissions Interviews Parenting

Did you notice there aren’t any average kids anymore—only Gifted and Disposable?

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