As an immigrant, I will always lack a certain fluency when it comes to the digital world. And learning how we learn, the overarching assignment that Dr. Cooper described, is one that we parents can’t complete for our children — no, not even the most hopelessly overinvolved parents, the ones who stay up all night putting together the seventh-grade biology poster. (You know who you are.)
The advice my older son gave me about my younger son was, “Don’t worry about it till there’s something to worry about. If he’s doing well in his classes and his homework, fine!” And that was also Dr. Cooper’s advice to parents: “If they’re doing well, permitting them to have some choice permits them to find their own style.”
via nytimes.com