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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The next three years will zoom by, it will go very, very fast. Our youngest is a HS senior, graduating momentarily and off to college soon. My advice? Just enjoy your child's company. Don't focus on the academics at the expense of just enjoying your child's company as a person. It will fly by. Don't be one of those moms with regrets that they spent all their time worrying about the kid's grades and then it was...over. And they feel like they didn't actually spend any time just enjoying life with their kid, because they didn't. [/quote]

My older child still has a couple of years until HS, but thank you for this advice.[/quote]

+1. I needed to hear this. Freshman year has been really hard for DS both academically and socially and I'm just glad it will be done soon. As a parent, it's been so hard not to focus on grades when I feel like the next three years really count for college admissions. But I also don't want to stress him out any more than he already is. I just don't want him to miss opportunities in the future but it does make it hard to focus on the present.[/quote]

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