Y’all, I want so badly to push pause and/or actively pursue a gap year program that could help S25 shore up his communication and exec function skills. It feels like we’re rushing this on a few different fronts. A friend’s kid did this cool program in Rhode Island (https://www.middlebridgeschool.org/) and seems to be firing on all cylinders now – much more confident. But kiddo and his Pop think I’m being unnecessarily pessimistic. I think they feel like there’s some kind of obvious stigma associated with not going straight to college. So anyway…