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Friday Mindset Reset: School Success Roundup

Friday Mindset Reset: School Success Roundup

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Emily Edlynn
Sep 30, 2022
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Raising Self-Sufficient Kids

**Friday Mindset Reset**

As I chitchatted with another parent at a kindergarten birthday party, she described her response to her 3rd grade daughter’s standardized test score percentiles, “I told her, ‘80th percentile does not get you into Stanford!’”

I was stunned.

I had worked to prevent my own achievement demons that arose f…

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