Originally Posted by MichaelW
Can you name any outstanding athletes (or people from any field) who have been outclassed by their children? There are countless examples of the children of great and outstanding people who are better than average but not as good as their parents.
persumably there are as many above average parents with outstanding kids as outstanding parents with above average kids
One problem is that the context for the parent is always different than for the offspring. We judge Eddie in the context of cycling in the 70's. We judge Axel in the context of cycling in the '00's. Two different worlds. The interesting question is whether the context change was greater than the offspring/parent change
BTW, both my daughters are smarter than I am
