Reading your kids essays?

Consolation
Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:42:23 +0000

There’s nothing you can do about it.

My S is an excellent writer, who never let me take the slightest peek at his HS assignments. Well, maybe once that I can recall. In my former life, I was a writer and editor. On the other hand, he DID let me help him edit his application essays.

Later, I spent a lot of time helping a friend’s kid with his essays, while his mother wasn’t allowed to look. Admittedly, writing is not her area of expertise, but still.

Go figure.

As long as someone who knows something about the mechanics of writing is functioning as a second pair of eyes, I think you have to let it go.