Me and Parents Fighting Over College!

iCon
Mon, 07 Feb 2005 21:32:57 +0000

"Something else to consider…is money a consideration for them? It may be and they are too embarrassed, proud, whatever, to discuss it directly. If that’s not it, then maybe they think they are protecting you from possible disappointment in rejection lettters. As a parent, we sometimes do that in a very weird way.

If you argue and debate all the time and show your frustration, it re-enforces their view about your not being able to handle life. Calmness, perhaps having them attend college nights, showing even more how you can handle it. I am not saying you can’t, I am saying that’s what your parents may want to see. Are you the oldest or only child?

If you approach it as not wanting to get away from their home, but to get the best eudation you can in what interests you, I think you might have more luck!!"

Well, It may be a consideration and I’m sure it is, but my parents are the type who wouldn’t be too scared to say anything about that. Most of my college will be paid for by Scholarships, Loans, and Grants…either way. I’m not sure how aruging back with them shows that i’m not ready to handle life. They’re the only people I ever argue with and mostly because they think I can’t make my own decisions. And the approaching it as not wanting to get away from their home won’t work. They know I can’t wait to leave here. And they know I can’t wait to leave here. And they also know it’s not cuz I hate Georgia. Me and my parents have never gotten along since I was in about the 5th and 6th grade. Lots of times becuase they were idiotically hell bent on proving that they’re the parent and i’m the child which I never went for. But yeah, that whole thing…won’t work either.