All the pressure for kids to succeed now must be really rough. I suspect parents don’t know the toll their children pay for the pressure to “do their best” and “achieve.” Remembering the relief of playing after school, homework and chores, I would have hated knowing I had to face more pressure in dance class, athletics, and tutoring. As clumsy as I was, it would have been more stressful than school. Continue reading
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Never Gonna Keep Up
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Having attended a tiny rural high school, fearing I could never compete with those from large urban high schools, I was sensitive about my educational shortcomings. Expecting to be labeled a bumpkin and hustled back to the farm “with my own kind,” in my mind, I had gotten to college with little to recommend me but a good vocabulary, a love of Continue reading
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