Throwing my hands up! I need help

carachel2
Wed, 17 May 2017 02:07:54 +0000

How have the talks gone up until this point? You standing at her door trying to engage her in college talk? Or a sit down “big talk” at the kitchen table complete with the spreadsheet of numbers, a printout of the budget and admissions and financial statistics for the one school she is interested in?

In our house, it took a big family meeting where everything was laid out on the table and we all got on the same page in order to make some forward progress in the process. If she’s not willing to engage in a realistic process, then maybe that’s a game that you as a parent can refuse to play? You have that right to put your foot down and tell her that’s not how it is going to go down at your house. She’s behaving like an immature child if she continues with her “one school” plan.

It’s hard to tell from your post if this is a reachy reach school admissions wise or financially? Also, did she just go to the Kaplan review course or did she actively participate and put in some hard core practice time at home? Nothing changed with D until she started hitting the section tests on her own motivation.