[quote=scaredyclassic]So let’s start at the beginning.

First if you want to have a successful kid, best to mate with a very intelligent very well adjusted person.

In fact if you screw up at this stage it might all be over anyway.

Some lawyers say the trial is pretty much already decided in jury selection…before the case even begins. Same principle may apply to success for your issue.[/quote]

I’ve seen cases in which two really dumb parents have a really intelligent kid.
And I’ve seen cases in which you have two STEM parents that ends up having a kid that is completely opposite. Anyway 99% of you don’t need to worry because for the amount of work/effort you put in + whatever financial background you had from your family, chances are you did pretty well without being overly stressed about it.

Me, on the other hand, nothing ever came easy. And it was always frustrating that I always felt that I had to do twice as much work to get half as much accomplished that other people had it much easier than me, whether they were smarter, or if they had more resources at their disposal, or maybe they just had a personality that allowed them to get through just ok, because they could smooze much better than me and talk their way through things. If I could have avoided all that, and done just as well as peers, I would have avoided all that. Unfortunately, I never got those breaks. Hopefully, my kid doesn’t have to go through the same thing.