Nowadays parents put too much pressure on their children to succeed. What is the reason for doing this? Is it a negative or positive development? Give your explanation using some relevant examples from your experience.

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always want their offspring to succeed. In contemporary society,

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society that fierce and brutal in the eyes of

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. To armour their kids with the necessary skills which may be somewhat useful in the future,

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have inevitably set high goals for their

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. Globalization is taking away tons of job opportunities from developed countries to the lower-cost developing countries, at a faster and faster pace. Strong labour unions

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longer retirement ages have minimized the opportunities to get a decent job for young graduates. In order to stand out from the mass public, adolescents have to get flying colours in their studies

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and plate some gold on their resume with various curricula as well.

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, a neighbour of mine forced his son to enrol in a private programming class, and he was only 12!

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society has grown unabatedly and

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results in more rich people around and

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more female bosses of

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families are able to quit their jobs to become full-time moms. It is

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these women are super enthusiastic about in enrolling lots of activities (or classes) for their kids, hoping to successfully raise a superman or a superwoman, to justify their sacrifice of career opportunities. The high hopes are of course perceived as pressure on the

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, a friend of mine, who grew up in a middle-class family, needed to learn the piano and dance at the age of six. Her mother did not go to work and had all the time to attend the lessons with her and checked all of her homework until she was 18. In conclusion, the higher pressure imposed by

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is partly a result of the arduous competition ahead, and partly from the full-time moms who want to prove their sacrifices worthy. Despite the discernable difficult times

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may encounter, I think letting

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learn that life is realistic is not wrong, they will understand and appreciate

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once they grow up.