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- Jan 6, 2007
Question is: how many children will be actually grateful for being pushed as children? There is only one Lang Lang, only one Yu-Na Kim - compared to how many children being pushed into playing the piano or skating? Of course, if the children are as successful as Kim or Lang, they might be grateful at some point. But don't kid yourself, the propability of having a Lang or a Kim as a child might be at 0,000001%. And will these other children be grateful for being pushed if they end up with "normal" lives? Or will they always think of themselves as failures, as not worthy of love and support and all the money that was spent on them?So if I decided to have another child I would choose the other style, which the child might not be as happy when she was young, but grateful when grown up.
I don't want to judge Mrs Kim, family dynamics are so complicated and nobody knows how their family works / worked (I judge Mr Lang though - he went a bit too far in my book). But articles like these, all these strange reality shows, all the celebrity stuff - seem to indicate that normal lives are not worth living. Has Kim a better life than let's say me or some carpenter in Ireland? How do you measure the success of parenting? By ISU rank? What is success in life?