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When extended families clash over different approaches to achievement and pressure

Our extended family gatherings have become tense because some of the parents are very achievement-focused with their kids and others are trying to break the cycle, and the kids are starting to compare and the adults are judging each other's choices without saying it directly.

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What we've seen

A family system is fracturing along generational and philosophical lines about what children need to thrive.

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