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[quote=Anonymous]This advice helps all kids, super intelligent or not. Let's assume everyone is doing the best they can with rigor and academic effort.

Tell your kids to check their email often and teach them how to respond/write an email. In the real world right now people rely heavily on email: when they are in charge in the 2050s perhaps they can teach young people to text and message or whatever it the new normal, but for now in school and work it's usually email. They will create frustration, miss messages, and potentially miss out on jobs and opportunities if they are not checking email.

Teach your kids to write well: review their work if their school doesn't provide this, give feedback, look for opportunities to enhance their ability to communicate in writing. This includes things like not using "text speak" or too casual of a tone as well as too formal of a tone that reeks of AI or gram marly.

Emphasize the importance of deadlines and no-retakes. If a test is on 5/22 start preparing for it 5/15 and do not plan to take it more than once.

Get them to have a basic understanding of current events. They can't put TikTok down? Ok. Find SOMETHING to explain current events in TikTok. It is so demoralizing to mention a significant weather event or prominent political figure or national or international disaster or controversy and have them blankly stare. This will matter when they converse with professors and colleagues or interviewers.

Take your ear buds out unless you are alone or not in a setting where you have to learn, pay attention, or communicate that you are listening (and one ear bud does not convey that you are listening with the "free" ear). Learn to be OK with just...being in a room without a device. 
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