It is hard when you are young to know if you are on the right path to success or not in life. Can you imagine being 16 again?
Stop. Let that sink in for a moment. Can you imagine being your daughter or son at 15 in the high school cafeteria on his/her first day of lunch. He goes from a class of 60 to up to 1800? Dude, that is why I think i am a good parent. I haven’t forgotten what is was like to be a kid. To be that ignorant being that had no idea of the path life has already carved out for me.
Think about it. have you ever watched “The Breakfast Club”? I mean it is a metaphor for preteens entering high school. The sooner you realized that school for your child is as hard or harder then it was when you were a sophomore pre calculus the better chance you have at success this decade. The shit that your child has to deal with is incrementally as hard as the supporters of their case in 1783. Survival of the fittest man and train your brain to be a warrior the sooner you will succeed.
You have to relate to your child and let her know that your life is as hard as hers has been. Because in your heart you know what is wrong and right and as long as your heart stears you right, the better you will sleep at night.