Let me start with the guidance counselor’s misguided guidance, and the way you’ve wholeheartedly bought into it. Getting a job in order to make college applications “more impressive” is silly. I say this with certainty both as a longtime college professoras someone who has done a lot of college application advising. If your kid needs a job or wants a job, that’s a whole ’nother thing.
And you of all people should support her in that.What is your position on insisting kids do a particular activity? Like a lot of pandemic kids, my 4½-year-old, “Sam,” has not had many opportunities to participate in activities with other kids. So I signed him up for our town’s t-ball league, which starts this summer. It’s THE sports league in town; most kids have been on a team at some point. However, Sam is adamant that he does not want to play.
I think she should quit antiwork