Maybe I’m weird but I’ve always liked the early sunsets. The long evenings can be cozy. On the flip side I’ve always enjoyed the super late sunsets on the opposite side of the year too. I enjoy dynamism when it comes to daylight length throughout the year. To me it would be strange living at a lower latitude where daylight length and sun angle are more uniform year round. I realize this is just personal preference though.
My mom pushed the "all A's" thing, which was pretty tough with my un-diagnosed learning disability. I pretty much knew I had it and went to my mom to try to get help, but she said I was just lazy. I managed to get into the "gifted" program in high school, and my teacher in the program tried to get me on the right track but I had already given up. At one point she she told me that while she could not tell me my IQ score, she said it was pretty incredible. I feel bad, in hindsight she was really invested in trying to help me succeed, and I didn't care.
I ended up failing a core class senior year and graduated a "C" student with a "basic" high school diploma (most of the class got a "college prep" diploma). I showed up for my SAT hung over and I think I barely cracked 1000. It took me until the age of 47 to get my college degree. I finally got a proper diagnosis on the learning disability at the age of 30.
For our kids, we told them to do their best, and if a C was their best, and they sought help from the school and asked us for help, then we would be perfectly happy with that. One kid didn't do so well that philosophy, but the other did have that scenario and "had the receipts": He asked us for help, kept in communication with us about his struggles, and when the final grade came in, there really wasn't any discussion or drama about it. I think he was harder on himself about it than we were.
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