<p>Doing ONE sport (the thing WE parents insisted upon) made no difference in college admissions for either of our kids…but that is NOT why we did this. We felt strongly that participation in some sports team was a good thing for them to do (both physically and socially)."</p>
<p>Yikes. If my parents had tried to force me to play a sport, I would have walked out the door. That’s a startling, biased imposition. I loathe sports with a passion. Frankly, I wish they would disappear from the face of the earth. I’m not much on people who play them either. I realize this is not the point of this thread, and I intend no personal attack, but that just struck me as ‘bleh.’</p>
<p>Had to take one EC. Could change any time she wanted but then would have to stick with the new thing for at least one year. (Everything requires “work” to become good, as opposed to flitting from thing to thing.) Needn’t have bothered, D took ballet starting in K and kept with it through college.</p>
<p>In one of the rare moments of parental disunity, I had to get TheMom to back off on D not getting to bed by midnight in high school. She stayed up until the problem sets were done and then had to be at school bright-eyed and bush-tailed by 7:20 the next morning. Well…at school, anyway.</p>
<p>I think the only thing that D really resented but didn’t argue was a rolling backpack (extreme dorkiness) in middle school. She was very petite, the backpacks were very heavy, and the physical toll would have played havoc with her ballet.</p>