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[quote=Anonymous]Your daughter is very young. Your focus should be on watching her grow as a learner and supporting her when you see she needs it. Good study skills, organizational skill, a healthy relationship with technology, good sleep habits, pursuing her interests, fostering independence, developing and maintaining friendships - the developmental goals for teens go far beyond a letter grade.

That said, you can start to educate yourself and keep a bird’s eye view on the college application process if you want (which has been changing year over year post COVID), but I only recommend that if you can keep your anxiety in check and not dump it on your kid. In our house college is the assumed path but not one we spend a lot of time specifically talking about until 2nd semester sophomore year.

Plenty of parents set the finish line and craft the kid they think will push through it, only to be disappointed when the highly rejective HYPs don’t accept them. It’s okay to value achievement but not at the expense of your kid. She’s too young to plug into future planning the way you seem to think she should. Don’t push it. [/quote]

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