Recent suicides at Yale College

wchatar2
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 20:47:05 +0000

I dont want to chime in too much but this is a very important issue to me, as Im sure it is to every parent. Pressure is a fact of modern life. None of these young adults would be at Yale without pressure. Not that being at Yale is the end all, its not. In my case the pressure applied was internal, it came from my son himself. Im sure every parent says that and even believes it is true. Im as faulty at appraising the truth as anyone else, I ask myself all the time whether I put pressure on my son. I find it hard to answer conclusively. What I do know know is that he is a very tightly wound person and from a very early age has been driven along a certain path. Is he happy? I dont think so, and that makes me very sad. Is it what I know he wants to do? Of that I have no doubt. The best I can do is a parent, I think, is to give him unconditional love and let him know that he always has someone to talk to. But the pressure isnt going away, a least not anytime soon.