The article I chose to write a critical review over is titled Don’t Aim Too High for Your Kids: Parental Overaspiration Undermines Students’ Learning in Mathematics written by Murayama, Pekrun, Suzuki, Marsh, and Lichtenfeld. This study was done to find the effects of kids whose parents have aspirations that far exceed the expectations they have for their kid. (which this article defines as being two different things.) For this study, they used a sample of kids and their parents from Germany. An independent sample was also used with a U.S. family, which was a strength of their research as it helped back up their claims because both independent studies had found the same results, being that unreasonably high expectations for a child can have
