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[quote=Anonymous]I put zero pressure on my kids (hs freshman and jr) but instead try to have mentoring conversations from time to time. I don't schedule these but have them organically as the topic comes up.

The reason for my no pressure is because I think they are more likely to succeed if they intrinsically pursue academic success. I was more hands on in their early years but as they went through middle school deliberately pulled back. They get good grades of their own volition.

I grew up with zero parental involvement. Did poorly in HS and ended up joining the military. Later I got interested in college and went to a great school on GI Bill and got my Ivy masters.

My older son is interested in electronics and is talking about going into apprenticeship for automation technology (think HVAC systems, industrial systems, production lines etc...) I was impressed because he had done the research and just with 2-3 yoe in this field you can make 80-90k. The more advanced certificates cost 20-30k, which tells me this is a great alternative to college. I'm okay with this.

Youngest seems to be interested in chemistry and going to college for it. I have friends who did chemistry undergrad and could only get lab monkey jobs but I didn't say anything to discourage my youngest. He plans to take AP chemistry and see if he likes it then.[/quote]

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