Dr. Dan Peters
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664 appearances
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first heard Jul 2018
last heard Mar 2020
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The thing that pressures us to focus on all of these very real things that do objectively matter, like grades and scores and experiences, is the idea of our time constraint, that we're seeing this after senior year or for some people before senior year of kids who are on the more advanced end of the spectrum academically and are accelerated.
is we're seeing like, okay, we have to have them ready by this time to do this.
But what I've learned over time, not only from just all my clients over the years and seeing so many different roads and so many different paths, but now also in our own house, is we can take the pressure off of the time.
Someone can take a gap year.
Someone can go to two or three years of community college.
someone can go learn a trade, work on their own startup, and it's still going to be okay.
So all of these things, for example, if you're going to, if your child is really, for whatever reason, bombing out in high, a bright child bombing out in high school for a variety of reasons, executive functioning, emotional, social, you name it, they can be done with high school and
get healthy and then take community college classes and then matriculate with their community college grades, not their high school grades.
Then they don't even need an ACT or an SAT.
And they have actually a higher chance of getting into one of the schools that they want to matriculating with an AA than going straight from a high school.
And so
Realizing that there are all of these different paths and our kids, our neurodiverse, our differently wired kids need time to grow.
They often need time to heal and recover from whatever their terrible schooling or social experiences were.
And that impacts their development.
That impacts their attention and focus and executive functioning.
And so if we can take a step back and
And we really have to be intentional about this and aware that these are real messages that we're getting that have some truth, but we have to filter them with what are we going to do in our family and where is our child in his or her level of development and awareness and readiness right now.
And realize, oh gosh, there are over 5,000 colleges and universities in the United States with many of,
great ones with very high acceptance rates, with very nurturing environments.
And it's all about, as the Stanford Success White Paper talks about, which is, excuse me, the challenge success out of Stanford.
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