<p>This is a nice column in today’s NY Times.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/nyregion/long-island/0308Rgen.html[/url]”>www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/nyregion/long-island/0308Rgen.html</a></p>
<p>Cute!</p>
<p>ten char.</p>
<p>I don’t think I would try this on my child since she is a musical theater performer and she just might take the offer, LOL.</p>
<p>I agree with soozie… I did just IM my daughter, who is a theater major at Muhlenberg to see if she knows this young lady. Chances are, yes she does. I’m wondering how my daughter would respond to my writing an article about it in the New York Times?</p>
<p>Great story! Given that my kids tried very hard to pretend they were walking around campus alone and these middle aged people just happened to be following them…</p>
<p>I would absolutely do it to/for my children, since I am 100% guaranteed they’d never take me up on it!!</p>
<p>Good heavens. It’s bad enough that my daughter can recognize herself when I talk about her on CC. But to talk about her in the New York Times – using her real name – would horrify her.</p>
<p>Marian, I agree…my kids likely wouldn’t even like that I talk about them on an anonymous forum but would not be too happy for me to do it in the NYTimes (or at least for something of that nature). I would imagine that the parent got permission from the daughter (I hope).</p>
<p>I wouldn’t. My kids like money to much. The very picky eater who won’t try anything different (I swear he would not have survived childhood or his teens if there had been a sudden scarcity of pop tarts and milk) once ate a jalapeno for $5. My daughter ate a sardine in mustard sauce for a donation to the service organization she was working for last summer, then finished the summer by dying her hair a bright red - and I mean bright red, not any sort of natural hair color - for a very large donation to the organization. Goodness knows what they would do for $1000.</p>
<p>LOL - that wouldn’t have worked with my kids! On the other hand, when I was looking at colleges the deal was that we didn’t leave campus until I’d at least talked to several actual students there. I was not the type of person who was comfortable just walking up to strangers (although I am now) so I remember the experience to this day!</p>
<p>So yea, just talked to D2 and she knows the young lady who is written about in the article. I guess it’s the talk on campus as everyone is returning from spring break today. D had already heard about if before I told her.</p>
<p>I liked this column because it reminded me of our family (I was the intrepid, enthusiastic researcher of colleges, trying to restrain myself from prodding my d to show ANY kind of interest).</p>
<p>I’ve written about my kids for publication. No biggie. I always get permission and allow them to be last edit. </p>
<p>My 16yo would NEVER sing to a group of strangers, so that would be a safe bet on my part.</p>
<p>Cute!</p>
<p>I would never try this on mine - I will be penniless. Mine are not camera or attention shy. A year or so ago I googled our yD, and found a link to an article in some out of state paper where she talked about her college application experience. Apparently, the writer found her on CC. Yikes.</p>
<p>I have offered bribes to my kids to do something that I knew they would enjoy. Usually to participate in a contest at a picnic, or something like that.
D will buy into it, sometimes. S- never.</p>
<p>D’s English teacher cut this article out and gave it to her, knowing had had applied to Muhlenberg–how sweet of her. (And how nice someone is still actually buying a newpaper!) When the teacher first started reading it, before she realized the girl in the story was graduating this year, she actually thought it might be about D, written under a pseudonym. But D would probably jump on a cafeteria table and sing for just a dollar, so the teacher doesn’t know her as well as she thinks she does.</p>
<p>I suspect there was a four-year delay in publishing the tale because it took the daughter that long to decide it was okay.</p>