We’re always trying to get ahead. Climbing the ladder, any ladder is all that matters. Whether it’s hoping your kid is the smartest or fastest or thows the best ball, we teach our children from a young age that second best is not enough. As they grow older, their grades have to be better, their rooms cleaner, their car nicer. They have to at least want to get into a good school, marry the best person, have the best job, great, perfect kids, in a great perfect home…. where the cycle is then repeated.