How To Raise An Over-Achiever
When exceptional is all that's good enough51 total reviews
Comment from Mark D. R.
Super heroes make for good stories and fun posts for FS contests! Illustration, text, and colors add to your post.
Your last three lines are Super! "Don't let Failure ..." is a great motto to follow in our daily lives and while composing poems for our own enjoyment (and others).
reply by the author on 10-Apr-2019
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Super heroes make for good stories and fun posts for FS contests! Illustration, text, and colors add to your post.
Your last three lines are Super! "Don't let Failure ..." is a great motto to follow in our daily lives and while composing poems for our own enjoyment (and others).
Comment Written 10-Apr-2019
reply by the author on 10-Apr-2019
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My father would love you, Mark D.R. He would make you an Honorary Saxman.
Thank you very much for this review.
Comment from Mers
I really enjoyed this poem it has a wonderful flow.
It also captures perfectly the pressure to be exceptional all the time.
Congratulations on a wonderful
Poem.
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I really enjoyed this poem it has a wonderful flow.
It also captures perfectly the pressure to be exceptional all the time.
Congratulations on a wonderful
Poem.
Comment Written 10-Apr-2019
reply by the author on 10-Apr-2019
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You get me, Mers. Thank you for that. I couldn't appreciate it more.
Comment from Mrs. KT
Hello, Mystery Writer!
Whew! That is a lot of pressure for family members of the Saxman family! I cannot tell if all that pressure is/was a positive or negative characteristic and if it was appreciated or not. Clearly, the message to be an overachiever made its mark! Well-executed!
Best Wishes!
diane
reply by the author on 10-Apr-2019
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Hello, Mystery Writer!
Whew! That is a lot of pressure for family members of the Saxman family! I cannot tell if all that pressure is/was a positive or negative characteristic and if it was appreciated or not. Clearly, the message to be an overachiever made its mark! Well-executed!
Best Wishes!
diane
Comment Written 10-Apr-2019
reply by the author on 10-Apr-2019
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It's always a mixed bag. All I can say is that I seemed to handle it better than my siblings. I am perfectionistic, myself, but at least had the wherewithal not to pass that onto my child. So it ends with me, and I consider that a positive thing.
Thank you for the wise and wonderful review.
Comment from RGstar
That message loud and clear, and one of motivation. Excel, but I would say, not at all costs, but, yes, definitely the way to go, unless you write this with irony, which I don't think so.
Well done.
My best wishes.
RGstar
reply by the author on 10-Apr-2019
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That message loud and clear, and one of motivation. Excel, but I would say, not at all costs, but, yes, definitely the way to go, unless you write this with irony, which I don't think so.
Well done.
My best wishes.
RGstar
Comment Written 10-Apr-2019
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You'll have to wait until you see my name and decide for yourself, RGStar!
Thank you very much for the wonderful review.
Comment from Boogienights
Hahaha ..great advice that could help all of us out. I'm going to show this to my two daughters who just started college. I think this is a wonderful contest entry. Good luck to you.
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Hahaha ..great advice that could help all of us out. I'm going to show this to my two daughters who just started college. I think this is a wonderful contest entry. Good luck to you.
Comment Written 10-Apr-2019
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Thank you, Boogienights. Let me know how receptive they are(n't). (I don't know about your college girls, but mine at that age knew everything and didn't need advice from the home front...)
Comment from Sandra du Plessis
A very well-written poem about the expectation we have for our children to excell and achieve as much as they possibly can to make the family looknow good when the prizes are collected.
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A very well-written poem about the expectation we have for our children to excell and achieve as much as they possibly can to make the family looknow good when the prizes are collected.
Comment Written 10-Apr-2019
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Hahaha. You totally get it, Sandra. I love your subtle use of words. Thanks for the perfect review. (You could be a Saxman!!)
Comment from Sanku
This is a motivational poem,no doubt..
But This sounds like the mantra of average middle class family in India. They pressurise the children so much that the poor kids are confused.The race to be a topper,and to perform well ,no failures allowed etc etc..Achieve and then achieve some more....
As a child I had gone thro that ..
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This is a motivational poem,no doubt..
But This sounds like the mantra of average middle class family in India. They pressurise the children so much that the poor kids are confused.The race to be a topper,and to perform well ,no failures allowed etc etc..Achieve and then achieve some more....
As a child I had gone thro that ..
Comment Written 10-Apr-2019
reply by the author on 10-Apr-2019
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It's a motivational poem of how NOT to raise your children. It's MEANT well, of course, this parenting style, but it's a better fit if you're raising robots than real children. But you obviously know this already. We are kindred spirits, Sanku.
Comment from Carla Trinklein
A delicious tongue-in-cheek look at the "helicopter" parenting styles we are all tempted to fall into from time to time. I miss the "Andy Taylor" approaches of yesterday, where kids were allowed to fail and learn from their mistakes, or to just spend the day fishing if that's what they wanted to do. This poem made me think...thanks for sharing.
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A delicious tongue-in-cheek look at the "helicopter" parenting styles we are all tempted to fall into from time to time. I miss the "Andy Taylor" approaches of yesterday, where kids were allowed to fail and learn from their mistakes, or to just spend the day fishing if that's what they wanted to do. This poem made me think...thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 10-Apr-2019
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Exactly, Carla. I couldn't agree more. Thank you for this affirming review!
Comment from LisaMay
No pressure! Sheesh. The poor kid with mummy and daddy hounding "don't fall short of the perfect score' will feel such a failure if the score lacks perfection. Which is highly likely because of exhaustion due to pressure at work and play achieving and then achieving some more and all the striving and soaring going on ... there'll be some crashing and burning going on too. That kid can come to my place and chill out for a while.
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No pressure! Sheesh. The poor kid with mummy and daddy hounding "don't fall short of the perfect score' will feel such a failure if the score lacks perfection. Which is highly likely because of exhaustion due to pressure at work and play achieving and then achieving some more and all the striving and soaring going on ... there'll be some crashing and burning going on too. That kid can come to my place and chill out for a while.
Comment Written 10-Apr-2019
reply by the author on 10-Apr-2019
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I'll book my tickets in the morning. Thanks, LisaMay!
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Wouldn't that be nice!
Comment from Gloria ....
I must admit this is a fun poem, even though if over achieving is what everyone does, then where does it stop?
That said SAXMAN, you've met the contest requirements well, although you might want to rework the second line to fit into the acrostic them a little neater.
Nice read.
Gloria
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I must admit this is a fun poem, even though if over achieving is what everyone does, then where does it stop?
That said SAXMAN, you've met the contest requirements well, although you might want to rework the second line to fit into the acrostic them a little neater.
Nice read.
Gloria
Comment Written 10-Apr-2019
reply by the author on 10-Apr-2019
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Oh gawd, Gloria! It's so fun to be called Saxman again! I haven't heard that for SO very long; it gave me a smile.
And thanks, too, for the great view. Very much appreciated.
