Parents putting undue pressure on their children to succeed is only for their own self-esteem and pride.
In my opinion parents should always be supportive and doing what they can to give their children the best start in life.
Life has enough pressures without parents dumping more pressure on their children for pride's sake.
Nature and the world is competitive. Children need to be equipped to deal with the pressures the world will put on them to survive. Parents can error in two different ways, over-protective and over-bearing. Raising a child in a cocoon does not give a child the skills needed to deal with the real world. And parents putting unrealistic expectations on a child to succeed can lead to failure, where the child feels they are a failure.

It would be interesting to explore why a parent put undue pressure on a child to succeed. I would say that it is natural for parents to want to see their children succeed. The line is crossed when the parents move from "wanting them to succeed" to "they have to succeed". I would surmise that that the parents do not have a healthy self-esteem of themselves. This results in parents wanting to be prideful and putting undue pressure on their children succeed.

In human society there is generally a shift from generation to generation that move cultural norms. It will be interesting to see how the kids that survive raise the next generation. Will they repeat the mistakes of their parents or go down a completely different path of child raising.

I am sure that teachers with a long career in education can comment on the different methods of child raising they have seen over their years of teaching.

Thank you for writing this article and raising awareness!
Steem on,
Mike