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[quote=Anonymous]Your wife is Asian, isn't she?

Your poor DS sounds like my DS's best friend.  He plays drums in the school band but the only way he was allowed to learn percussion in school was if he agreed to piano and cello lessons outside of school.  He hates both.  He also has an SAT prep class, STEM tutor (had no idea that was a thing until he told me), a tutor for Latin to make sure what he's learning in school is up to par, and he's started Spanish this year outside of school.  Poor kid never has any free time to relax and decompress.  She even made him drop out of soccer, which he loves and where he and my DS became BFFs, because it hinders his learning.

For my DS bday he invited 5 friends over for an afternoon of paintballing, dinner out, and then a sleepover with video games and movies.  His friend wasn't allowed to attend the paintball event due to the violence (I get it; a gun is a gun to some) but was dropped off at the restaurant for dinner.  He wasn't allowed to spend the night because he had his STEM tutor at 7:30 on a Saturday evening... a Saturday evening tutor!!  I told his mom he was more than welcome to come after his tutor session but she said he needed to be up early for his cello lesson on Sunday and she knew he wouldn't get enough sleep.  She did make a compromise with me that he was allowed to spend from 12-3 with DS that Sunday as long as I didn't allow him to have more than 45 minutes of electronic stimulation.  I just wanted to hug the kid and tell him to spend all 3 hours doing whatever he wanted, even if he was being electronically stimulated, but I was a good mom and cut them off.  He still had a blast playing soccer with DS and some neighborhood kids.

I understand prepping for college, but he's 14 and way too scheduled.  If your kid isn't going to bed until after 11 PM or midnight and given zero free time, you're parenting wrong.        [/quote]

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