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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][size=18] [/size][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Why are they allowed to do all of that? No wonder they are acting out.[/b] Sometimes parents need to out their foot down when they can see their kid is taking on too much. [/quote]

OP here.  Well, it's a little late to extricate them from things in the 4th quarter of junior year and some things are not optional (the research paper).  We have high achieving kids and just rode the wave of the DMV parenting.

We have a rising 9th grader and we will be (and are) doing many things differently with him.  Live and learn.  [/quote]

I think that person is just not realistic and perhaps doesn’t have older teens. Varsity spring sport is a crusher but even without that most kids have a slew of APs and due to our school systems late start one month less to learn the material than kids in other states.  Plus basically every kid has to have some kind of extracurriculars nowadays.   And then you know they have the usual teen stuff with breakups and friend group drama and not knowing what you want to do with your life but feeling like everyone else has it figured out.   Plus the issues with teaching nowadays really does trickle down to them — teachers that are unhappy, stressed, missing school, got stuck teaching a subject area they don’t really know….all of that leads to a much more stressful experience for the teens.  [/quote]

I have a college freshman so I’m not some naive parent of a toddler. Your kids don’t need to do all of that. [/quote]

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