Me and Parents Fighting Over College!

ctnjpamom
Mon, 07 Feb 2005 20:30:52 +0000

There are a lot worse things in this life than having parents who don’t want to let you go. However, I feel your pain as way back when my parents made me stay home the first two years and I was miserable and actually dropped out at one point.

Maybe instead of hitting them right between the eyes with “I want to go to school in a big northeastern city or on another continent”, develop a list of schools that are more of a compromise than a confrontation. Show your maturity by taking their feelings into consideration. They want you to be safe, so take that into consideration, even if it is only for their benefit. Even the best of parents can get panic stricken by the thought of a child going to college hundreds or thousands of miles from home. For 18 years, if you tried to leave your kid in another city and drive away, you’d get arrested. Then, all of a sudden, you are supposed to do it.

So work on that college list. You don’t have to go to the outermost regions of the world to be happy at college. Maybe save Australia for a semester abroad after you’re parents have had a little time to adjust.