parent/child dissent

MommaJ
Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:43:10 +0000

My own impression is that it should take more than something like paying for a college they didn’t want to go to, to ruin your relationship with your kids.

My guess is that any parent planning to control a kids’ college selection with money already has a relationship that pretty fragile–if a parent is refusing to pay for a college because he doesn’t think it’s the optimum choice, chances are the relationship has been rife with this kind of controlling behavior, and this could be the straw that breaks the relationship’s back. And given the fact that this entire website exists for the purpose of helping students through the college process, it’s odd to me that someone would be a hugely active CC commenter yet downplay how important college selection is to a student (justifiably or not). I don’t think a parent’s dictating where an offspring is going to spend four years of adult life is small potatoes to that offspring.