Start letting her make decisions that might be mistakes now. I think you're very wise on the confirmation thing. But we, with much consternation, stood back and let our daughter decide which high school, to drop an AP class, and so on, because we felt better to let her start making her decisions while we were there to catch her. (None of these were decisions that might keep her from living a happy life; we certainly wouldn't have supported her in dropping out.)
She's pleasantly surprised us by trying her own wings when ready. I'd been gently nagging for a couple of years that she needed outside interests; last year she, on her own, auditioned to join yearbook, something I'd never even considered, and has blossomed -- she's doing graphic layout and photography, something I didn't know was an interest.
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Date: 2007-01-09 04:47 pm (UTC)She's pleasantly surprised us by trying her own wings when ready. I'd been gently nagging for a couple of years that she needed outside interests; last year she, on her own, auditioned to join yearbook, something I'd never even considered, and has blossomed -- she's doing graphic layout and photography, something I didn't know was an interest.