Do you encourage your kids to be academically competitive?
My wife encourages this more than I do.
I'm still pretty bitter about the my entire "life is a giant competition" era that led me to near total burnout early in life.
When she gets to the point where competition matters in terms of high school, I might think about it, but only to the point of solid achievement. I'll probably try to evaluate her class and figure out where she is with respect to percentile so that I have a good idea of her achievement target.
There's always the urge to train her to destroy the competition, but I think I'll just repress that or solely use it against insurance companies.
