Originally Posted by Anonymous
If that's true you are quite lucky and should be proud but if your perceive that your status is somehow elevated by your son's success, that's a bit disturbing to me. His status is not yours. Either way you took a big gamble and won. Most will not and you can't get that time back. They are only children for a short while.


What you maybe don't realize is that getting a kid to that level is a joint effort. The parents are a major part of a kids success no matter how great kid is, they need support and advice throughout the journey. When ever I am out in my community, people come up and congratulate me on my son an our whole families commitment to our kids. That what I mean about status. And it feels good! We never saw this as a gamble. Just working together, sacrifice, for a goal. I believe you need these qualities to be successful at anything. Good life lessons if nothing else.