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Nowdays, some parents pressure their children to be successful. What are the reasons of this? is this a positive or a negative development?

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Every parent
want
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wants
 their
child
 to
secceed
attain success or reach a desired goal
succeed
 in
life
 and become the best he can.
Although
 we wish the best for
child
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a child
children
the child
, we can sometimes exert too much
pressure
 which can be harmful and lead to the opposite result. There are several reasons why we
pressure
 our children.
First
, as adults we are more aware of the required steps in order to succeed in
life
. As an example, we know that studying physics will assist our children substantially more than studying music. As a
consequence we
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consequence, we
pressure
 our children to study what we think they need in order to manage in
life
, rather than what they find interesting.
Second
, many parents want their children to succeed where they have failed. To illustrate, parents who did not get accepted to the university will push their
child
 to have good grades so that he will graduate the university.
Third
, many believe it is harder today to succeed than in previous years.
This
 is
especialy
to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common
especially
trues
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true
 in
competative
involving competition or competitiveness
competitive
prefessions
the body of people in a learned occupation
professions
,
such
 as medicine, computers or
the the
definite article
the
 academy.
As a result
, parent
pressure
 their
childre
a young person of either sex
children
child
to get
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get
 better grades, in
comparisson
the act of examining resemblances
comparison
 to what they did, so that they will have a secure job later in
life
. Pressuring our children, in my opinion, is a negative development that will, in most cases, do more harm than good.
This
 is because
i
refers to the speaker or writer
I
 believe a
child
 should find its own path in
life
 and should not be directed according to
hes
male possessive pronoun
his
parents
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parents'
 wishes. The consequences of pressuring a teenager has been shown in a large study done
in
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at
 Harvard
University which
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University, which
 showed a 30% higher
incedence
the relative frequency of occurrence of something
incidence
 of substance abuse and depression among these children.
This
 research illustrates the possible unwanted results of pressuring our
child
 and show that we should direct our
child
 and not push him. In conclusion, our children need
guidence
something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action
guidance
 and direction.
This
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This, however
however
, should be done gently or else it might lead to unwanted results.
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