If it helps, my daughter is in high school now and is bummed about late driving and shortened lifespan for sports before college. But, when I asked if she thought she shouldn't have skipped, she thought that was crazy thinking. And that it would be stupid to make a skipping decision based on not being as old as the kids in high school.
Thanks. Sports is another thing that has come up, but I don't think that is going to be an issue for us. He did 2 seasons of soccer and 1 season of baseball, and it is time to sign up again for baseball. He really improved and was doing well by the end of last season, but he told us he would really rather not do the sports because its just not his thing. Took some teeth pulling to get him to admit that, I think he was leaning towards just playing because he knew we enjoyed it. He's actually an aspiring chef, and would rather focus on trying new recipes and techniques than the sports stuff. (Lucky for us, we get a lot of good meals out of his experiments)
The driving thing will be an issue, with the full skip he wouldn't get is license until senior year, but we discussed it with him. Not that he can fully grasp that right now as far as how it will feel when his friends can drive and he can't, but in the scheme of things it doesn't feel like a reason to hold him back.
