It was decision time.  Our second child needed to choose a college.  It had been an exhausting process.   I could feel myself slipping back into thinking, “If only.”  If only we had filled out more scholarship applications.  If only we had applied to more colleges! “Enough”, my brain finally told me.   We are all searching for THE way to raise our kids so that they will have the best chance at life.  It was several months after this critical time in out lives that I had a light bulb moment.  There is no ONE way.  Do you want to know why YOUR child will succeed?  Because of that great mix of you, as the parent, and them as your child! [Read more…]