Please tell me that you don't do this to your kids.

[Little_15]

My parents get a self esteem boost from seeing me do well in school. Now, one, I don't like feeling that I'm working for someone else and that my intelligence is being used for them, not me. And two, it leads to things like ... I have a 4.25 GPA but that's not good enough because I got a B in advanced geometry, and that will make it harder for me to get into summer college and normal collage, etc.

End of rant/pointless post. Thank you for listening.

[i am a cat.]

I'm not a parent, but I'm a student like you. I have a 4.38 GPA currently, and I worked really hard to get a B this marking period in my advanced Trig/Calc class. I usually get a high B in my math classes every year... Concepts with numbers take a lot of work for me to understand.

I'm sorry that you feel that your intelligence serves more for your parents than for you. There's a line in a Radiohead song that goes "If you try the best you can, the best you can is good enough." I wholeheartedly agree with that.

Larisa, a B in an advanced class is not a bad grade by any means and it shouldn't be much of a hinderance from anything. At my school, a B in an honors class counts as much as an A would in a regular class. As for the college worry you're having, my guidance counselor at school says that colleges would rather look at your transcript and see you taking the initiative to do an advanced course in high school and get a B rather than take an easy, regular course and get an A.

Please don't stress yourself. I'm sorry you feel this way.

[Little_15]

<b>Larisa, a B in an advanced class is not a bad grade by any means and it shouldn't be much of a hinderance from anything. At my school, a B in an honors class counts as much as an A would in a regular class. As for the college worry you're having, my guidance counselor at school says that colleges would rather look at your transcript and see you taking the initiative to do an advanced course in high school and get a B rather than take an easy, regular course and get an A.</b>

It does at my school, too. I know that everything you've said is true. I think my parents know it, too ... they can't be that out of it. But then why are they doing this to me!?

[GimpyPoop]

Yo,
Little_15, ya are phine pair of smartypants so dern't believe otterwize. Ya too Ms. Pisces. :)
ALL, vell da majority of parentships, do dat kinna junk. I swore I would nevah do it to mah kiddos, but I'm already pressurin' mah younger brothah to do vell in high skewl. I rilly rilly want him to succeed. He is ubergenius, but da mofo is lazy as hell and not livin' up to his potential! Yanno, parents just wanna push push push and have deir kiddos do deir best. Dey kinna forgot how it wuz like to be a kiddo.
I got da SCHITTS frem mah folks in high skewl. I didn't have a probbie wit math at all (spank gawd fer innate Asian genes, j.k.!), I slept thro' and made straight A's. But I screwed up in otter worthless subjects like Honors World History and junk. Woe is me! Aneehoo, I got lotsa mad schitt frem mummy especiallly becuz I made rilly great marks in middle skewl and I kinna went thro' mah confusion period in high skewl and da grades went bi bi down the hole. Didn't help dat mah couze's and mummy's friend's kiddos were all valecdictorian and bein' shipped off to Ivy League skewls. I curse em all!
Yikers, it wuz complete madness, lotsa fites and throwin' of objects becuz of arguments ovah silly numbers and letters.
Yer parents aren't intentionally causin' ya hell, dey just lose sight of what's best fer ya in desirin' dat ya live up to yer potential. Dern't werry, it'll pass, kinna, but reappear in da future in different forms. Eeps!
I rather mah parents care and give me hell than have em not give a flyin' phunk about me and mah education. I surely didn't feel dis way back then, but spank gosh dey kept me on task.
But c'mon a B is not gunna keep ya frem college! Pleeze, I had a few C's and I'm in a purtee good college. Then agin, I live in Tejas. ;)
Take care. Bi bis.
Me, the Flea

[Canodiva1]

Tejas? lol.

You'll both be fine, Little_15 and Pices. :) I was totally flipped out the whole time I was in high school and I never thought my grades were good enough. I got accepted into some really good schools. (Even though I didn't go...but that's another story.)

Tell your parents that you will worry abtou the grades, tell them they just need to worry abotu having enough money for your college career. :)

Lindsey

[Little_15]

I'm paying for my own college career ... they have nothing reasonable to worry about, why don't they stop worrying!? :)

[Canodiva1]

<font color="3333CC">Well, then tell them to take a flying leap. ;)

Lindsey
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