Personally, I think most parents are doing everything they can to try to ensure the best path for their children’s future, but the reality is that, with or without extreme performance pressure applied, kids may or may not get the career/life of their dreams in the real world for many reasons.
Things turned out well for our kids, as they have for many others, and their educational pursuits paid off, but the fact that the wealth gap continues to widen, imo, is proof that there is much more to financial success (for the point of this discussion I’m not referring to other types of success, although, ideally, we meld all types of success to form our lives) than solely depending upon a premium education as a guarantee of success.
