btw, I will add that my overwhelming sense about my DD had always been that if she can get through the teen years relatively unscathed, she is going to be a fantastic, fascinating young adult. DH feels the same way. In fact, this feeling is really, really strong. I have a very clear picture of her--passionate, artsy, quirky, with a circle of unusual friends--but I also have a picture of how things could go sideways, which I generally try not to look at too often.
I hope you are right, but books such as "Thinking, Fast and Slow" and "Rational Choice in an Uncertain World" tell me that impressionistic predictions of the future tend to be no better than chance. If you used statistical information about your daughter, say high school GPA, IQ score, and scores on a personality inventory, you may be able to make predictions slightly better than chance if they are fed into a prediction model.
