Reading your kids essays?

intparent
Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:39:26 +0000

This can work, although my Ds did allow me to see their essays. I also offered D2 the opportunity to work with one of her academic team coaches who is also a college counselor (I was going to see if we could pay him just for essay feedback, I think he would have done it). So we wouldn’t have had to pay for the full cost of a private college counselor, just for that one task.

She decided to let me just review them, but we did it via email exchanges. She would work up in her room and send drafts to me. I would comment on the draft (turn on editing in word and just add comments) and email it back. We discussed this later, and she said that the email process worked perfectly for her. She said it was a lot easier than doing the feedback process face to face. The only time we discussed them face-to-face was when she was stalled on finding topics/material for the college-specific assignments. We would sit in the living room while she brainstormed and I inserted a few comments, then she would go back into her room for the actual writing.

I would say that SOME adult needs to read them. And honestly, an early reading for content/topic/structure and a final review for “are you sure this will sound okay to an ad com?” is a good idea.