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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can be well scheduled and not exhausted. It just depends on how intelligent and gifted the child is. [/quote]

What's that supposed to mean?[/quote]

It means the poster you're quoting is a perfect parent with a perfect kid, I guess.

Two of my kids are in college and the third has graduated and been working for a few years. When they were young, we signed them up for things they said they wanted to do, but if they were resistant to actually going to the activity, we didn't sign them up for the next round.

In high school, two of them found activities they really liked and did them. The third needs more down time, plus there was COVID. They all got into colleges they were happy with (state flagship, top private universities and SLACs), and they are (mostly) good about managing the sort of real life tasks that my friends nag their kids about (medical appointments, laundry, etc)

Get out of their way so they can figure out who they are. Let them screw up while they're young and the consequences are smaller[/quote]

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