Parents need to BACK OFF

SpacemanEd
Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:15:06 +0000

Well, you can offer to pay the tuition.

Respect and honor your parent’s journey. And that they’ve set a high bar for you. And provided an environment in which you could at least mention Harvard at the dinner table. Better than the alternative.

I strongly disagree with Mitch about “throwing” the interview. Better that Harvard accepts you, and YOU decline THEM. Tell your Dad that it’s not good enough for you.

Have Dad catch you on the sofa reading a People magazine with Michael Jackson, McCauley Culkin, or Lindsay Lohan on the cover.

Force him to watch “Dance Moms”. Tell him you feel that way sometimes. When he says, “What!?”, say nothing except, “I dunno. Just a feeling.”

Of course, to his everlasting credit, he sounds like a guy who would take a sledgehammer to his HDTV screen rather than watch 5 minutes of Dance Moms. I’m with him.

You could also tell him that you heard that Harvard asks about the above on their entrance interviews. If he asks who told you that, mention my name. I got your back.