Yes, but those underachievers are the ones whom you figure you just browbeat into doing a better job--before you're an actual parent and understand the delicacy of such things, of course. wink

A kid who can get an A but doesn't is a very different issue from a child who just can't do better than a C, and not from lack of trying. The latter was the thought that kept me up at night.

Now that I have kids--<shrug>--not so much. You take them where they are, and it all works out. Everyone can learn. Everyone has talents. Parenting is a lot easier in that respect than I thought it would be.

Kriston