Are these EC's good enough?

concerneddad
Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:06:47 +0000

Thank you all for your comments and suggestions, and I feel re-assured by those comments that they are indeed on the right track. We too had the “do something, do anything” rule at home. It has taken us from soccer and basketball, to ice-skating and gymnastics; from dance to drama to music. Both were introduced to horses, but only D2 stuck with it; it is and will remain, a lifetime passsion. D1 struggled more, but we think she found her voice in “leadership.” She struggled through a few tough years of letting all of her friends go as they started to experiment with sex and drugs and alcohol. They were lonely years for her, but one by one, these kids came back to her – more sober – a with a lot of resepct for her willingness to stand apart from the herd. These lessons will do her well for the rest of her life, and may indeed make for an interesting essay.