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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are these school sports or travel sports?

If travel or a sport like hockey/swimming where practices impact sleep due to pool/rink times; then yeah dial it back. But exercise and being on a team is good for kids, too!

Maybe get a tutor or even an executive functioning coach to help him learn to study/manage time efficiently.[/quote]

One is a club – – swim. The rest are school sports. He has worked with an executive coach on an off through middle and we re-engaged when assignments weren’t being turned in. He does have ADHD, which I didn’t mention, so we thought he might have the energy to do it all, but that has proved to not be the case. [/quote]

DP here.  I didn’t want to assume ADHD but I see you added it here.  I’ve been where you are about worrying about shutting the door to schools they might decide junior year they want to attend.  Here is what we did
- While keeping the door open to T10 might have been nice, we would be full pay with two in college and didn’t have T10 full pay money for two saved.  Since getting into the flagship from our county is very competitive, I made sure my kids were aware of that GPA/test score range from their school early on ..and assume it might be harder by the time they were seniors That was the goal for weighted/unweighted GPA
- Praise process not just outcome.  The time management, asking for help early, meeting with teachers and being prepared - they went off to college knowing how to do these things and learned while I had access to grades and was there to encourage them
- Make sure they are looking at time commitments realistically and having them give input on what they want to continue and what they want to drop.  My kid kept up with one sport and used the other seasons to take on new things in high school.  They play that sport now on the club level in college and it’s been a good source of exercise and enjoyment as well as a connection when they studied abroad.[/quote]

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