Oh, Kriston, I hope you didn't think that I thought you were being critical--you're never anything but kind and super-supportive here of people and their ideas and choices and musings...I was just laughing at myself, looking up the entrance requirements for the kids' current ideas of "what they want to be when they grow up", so we can plan the right high school path! Really, I know that there are other things I could be doing...like, oh, say, vacuuming, or scrubbing the tub surround, or, you know, like that--but it is much more fun finding out what it takes to get into astrophysics for my four-year-old!!!
I myself do find it helpful to think a certain distance out, just because I am a very bad Decider--I tend to have a lot of regrets about decisions I made too quickly (I wish I weren't like this, but you gotta play the hand you're dealt)--so I do like to think a long time and investigate and look at samples, and so on, and talk to other people, and then feel pretty confident that things will suit the kids all right. So far it has worked pretty well--but don't know whether it's luck, the planning, or the general easygoingness of my lovely kids!! Probably the last, I suspect. And I certainly agree that it would be fatal to stick to something that wasn't working, just for the sake of the plan.
Hope y'all had a happy Yankee Thankee!
peace
minnie
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