I never want to be the smartest person in the room.
It's far better to hang out with people who are smarter than me and a thousand times better to not find out you're not the smartest person the hard way. You can not learn unless you up the game. (As Anastasia is doing.)
I went to Penn and a number of freshmen in my class were horrified to discover they were no longer the smartest person on the floor much less the school. They had been the smartest person since kindergarten all the way to valedictorian and it threw them out of kilter. And now they were in classes where easily half of the kids had also been the smartest kid.
Not fun.
(I went to a highly competitive HS and already knew I wasn't.)
Hardest worker is the best strategy although most charming comes in a close second. 😁
Secondly, are you in Montgomery? Because the Youth Orchestra program might be useful.
Last, as the child of a blue collar worker, you're already teaching her the most important lesson. You're teaching her to find her opportunities instead of expecting them to be handed to her. My mother taught us that and it still pays off.
Sounds like you, at the sacrifice of so much else, got your daughter the tools she needs to feel confident and by being a “there” father she will never fall for some guy who could get in the way of everything which I’ve seen happen so often to young women. Had I a father like you there’s no telling how far I would’ve gone. You did good
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I never want to be the smartest person in the room.
It's far better to hang out with people who are smarter than me and a thousand times better to not find out you're not the smartest person the hard way. You can not learn unless you up the game. (As Anastasia is doing.)
I went to Penn and a number of freshmen in my class were horrified to discover they were no longer the smartest person on the floor much less the school. They had been the smartest person since kindergarten all the way to valedictorian and it threw them out of kilter. And now they were in classes where easily half of the kids had also been the smartest kid.
Not fun.
(I went to a highly competitive HS and already knew I wasn't.)
Hardest worker is the best strategy although most charming comes in a close second. 😁
Secondly, are you in Montgomery? Because the Youth Orchestra program might be useful.
https://mcyo.org/?page_id=157
Last, as the child of a blue collar worker, you're already teaching her the most important lesson. You're teaching her to find her opportunities instead of expecting them to be handed to her. My mother taught us that and it still pays off.
Good luck.
Yes to cello! Playing music will stay with her all her life. An IB course won't have the same impact, unless one develops IBS, and that's just misery.
Sounds like you, at the sacrifice of so much else, got your daughter the tools she needs to feel confident and by being a “there” father she will never fall for some guy who could get in the way of everything which I’ve seen happen so often to young women. Had I a father like you there’s no telling how far I would’ve gone. You did good
Thank you!!!!!!