How involved are you in helping your kid choose a major?

<p>That's because he hasn't seen how real lawyers really live. ;)</p>

<p>I think my kids realized early on that they were losing something in the "attention" department from having two parents who spent all their time talking about law and overworked/overstressed and exhausted. When my d. was a very little girl, perhaps 5 or 6 years old, she came up with a dinner-table game in which she played the "judge" and we parents were supposed to be the lawyers and argue our cases in front of her. We thought it was cute at the time, but it's rather pathetic in hindsight. </p>

<p>(She made a really good judge, though -- later on she started holding court on the playground at her elementary school, and she was quite well respected for her fair approach and wise adjudication of playground squabbles). </p>

<p>I have a friend with a musical family, and their evenings were spend with the kids gathering in the den with their dad to play music with assorted instruments every evening. My kids were quite envious -- a nightly jam session seems like a lot more fun. My d's boyfriend is a musician, pursuing a BFA at a music school.</p>

<p>Much to my shock, I actually had a little bit to do with son's choice of a major. Son had barrelled through high school with the letters "MD" emblazoned on his brain. He did some soul searching senior year and decided a science degree and/or career was not for him. The kid who applied to college as a pre-med with college credits in bio found himself "undeclared" by the time April rolled around.</p>

<p>As he was struggling and searching, I thought about his strengths and casually asked him without pressing....would you consider majoring in "X"? Seems as if it fits your interests....</p>

<p>Now almost a year later, son is declaing his major as "X", is joining a theme dorm, and planning to do grad school in that area. It has become the center of his college experience... Go figure!? Never could I have predicted that.</p>