<p>originaloog,</p>
<p>Sorry, laissez faire parenting doesn’t work for me. There are no shouting matches, and really not “nagging”, though my daughter might take it that way on occasion. More in the realm of “If you want to apply ED, you really need to get your resume’ going before you ask for teacher recs”, etc. My daughter and I are doing some great bonding during this process, visiting schools together, helping her decide, etc. I have two teenage girls so any time we can share some interests is golden for me (my wife bonds with them at the mall). She’s an excellent candidate for some of the elite schools so I let her know I would support her decision to go wherever she wants, an opportunity I didn’t have at her age. Most of the students in her IB program wind up going to the flagship state U on scholarship, so she was very excited to know that she has options. The GC at her school is clueless, so I’m pretty much doing his job and enjoying every moment of it.</p>