What would you have your kid do different if they were just starting high school?

<p>My younger son said I should have taken him to a Yale reunion instead of a Harvard reunion since they have much better food and architecture. He claims he might have worked harder. I am not convinced. :)</p>

<p>The only thing I can think of is trying harder to get my younger son to study a different language than Latin. I think starting from scratch in college has been harder on him than it needed to be and really has constrained his choices. (We also had many Latin caused scheduling conflicts for both my kids.)</p>

<p>I’m very happy that neither kid was bullied into taking AP English as seniors - they both really enjoyed English, got easy A’s that meant from a GPA point of view it was a wash. For the first time they had English teachers that loved them. And at least for the youngest because he was studying “mysteries” there was much more emphasis on the structure of the story and the types of sub-genres instead of endless essays about symbolism.</p>