Reading your kids essays?

momofmusician17
Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:15:37 +0000

I read my son’s common app essays. The first essay he wrote was very poetic but didn’t reveal a thing about him. Certain lines were poetry in motion, but the essay as a whole was meh (as the kids say). I tried to convey this to my son, but as I am just his mom, he wasn’t having any of it. Fortunately, he showed the essay to his English teacher from sophomore year who told my son the same thing.

My son went back to the drawing board and wrote an essay that revealed all his quirkiness. The only thing I was allowed to read it for was grammatical structure and flow. If you read the essay, you would have true insight into what makes my son tick.

I think it may actually be better to have a third party read it as he/she has almost no biases and you are emotionally invested and related! ;)