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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone else posted on here one time about it being tough for type A parents to watch a child decide to go 80% of the way on something when the kid is capable of doing more. For those saying to guide (maybe not push) when you get, when did you stop? 9th grade? Sooner? [/quote]

I let mine abandon sport after 4 years of training, it was not that important to us, they resented it and they had some talent but were not outstanding. The instrument I will let go some time in HS. It breaks my heart given the talent and performance level but they are not going to be professionals. We will support it for as long as they want to continue but won't push for regular practicing, will stop paying lessons if they don't practice etc. This is really hard for me because they play beautiful music and we also play together as a family.

I don't need to push for schoolwork, high schooler is pretty much on their own there and the middle schooler is also pretty self-directed. I will continue to monitor that in college and beyond. For that, I would raise hell, l but I didn't need to, so far.
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