Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency and space to simplify and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.

This conversation between me and Asha originally launched March 2016, nearly 10 years ago.

It was episode 30.

But it has been in the Locked Archive since I moved to Edit Your Life to the Adelist, now was episode 30, but it has been in the locked archive since I moved to Edit

Your Life to the Adelist, now AdLarge, podcast network. As I thought about the recent episode

on navigating school achievement pressure, I was also thinking about how multi-dimensional that

pressure can be and how it can come from parents and also from kids.

I encourage you to also listen to editing out extracurricular pressure, which is the counterpoint

to this conversation on parenting kids who have a driving force when it comes to signing up

for and pursuing activities. In addition to sharing some framing context, Asha and I share nine

recommendations for how to balance supporting and sometimes questioning passionate kids.

And also, we offer some level setting in the totally normal instance that your kid has not yet

developed a passion. It was really great to relisten to this episode, especially as Violet heads into high school this year and pursues her own passion. It was really great to re-listen to this episode, especially as Violet heads

into high school this year and pursues her own passions and interests. Let's get right to it.

So I'm sort of rubbing my hands together in anticipation because I have many things I want to, well,

let's just see how, I got to calm down. But I do have a lot of things I want to say and I really want to hear from you.

This is a very interesting, very interesting topic for me.

So last week, I just want to sort of connect to what we talked about last week.

We were talking about extracurricular activities and how so many of us as parents feel this pressure to sign

our kids up for all the after-school activities, all the things. There just seem to be so many

options. And with that, also it feels like sometimes it's our, we feel this nagging obligation to somehow expose our kids and

...