Posted on 12/31/2014 4:21:00 AM PST by BlueStateRightist
Overprotective parents hurting child's growth?
(Excerpt) Read more at video.foxnews.com ...
Given what colleges have become, I understand the temptation.
There must be some financial angle here. Mom and Dad aren’t usually more “overprotective” of Junior than they are of themselves.
My mother was visiting one weekend when I was in college. My roommate and I threw a huge party that Saturday, and my mother became a celebrity with a lot of our friends when she volunteered to be DD for the evening. It was very cool, but I definitely would not have wanted my parents with me through all 4 years of that experience. What a joke.
Well, I am not going to watch the video at work, buit as some schools can charge well over $15,000 for room and board, there might well be a financial component to the decision. However, say what you will about the classroom instruction, I find the dorm life in most colleges to be far more corrosive of the student’s morality and well-eing than the instructors.
People are now perpetual infants; told what to do and directed for the first 25 years of their life by their parents and the remainder of their like directed by the government. This fits perfectly with the nanny state model to produce dependency on others for all decisions.
...are they going to go to her job interviews with her as well...???
let your little bird go!!!
“DD”
Would that be “Disgusted Driver”?
That’s the roll, I’m normally volunteered for since I don’t drink.
My son is at a small engineering college. He won’t even let us visit let alone move in. This place is so academic, the biggest behavioral problem they have is a case or two of plagiarism. With their internships, most students have security clearances while still in college. No one wants to endanger that.
As I recall, only three people needed rides. My mom loved doing it.
I grew up in a different era. I chose a school 900+ miles from home. The only time my parents visited was the day I graduated.
I say these parents are sick.
My husbands niece graduated from HS at sixteen, over the top brilliant, and was accepted into some kind of accelerated pre-med program at OSU. Only twenty-four students per year are accepted, it was such an accomplishment and such an honor that it couldn’t be turned down, but Ohio State is some pretty rough territory, so her parents rented an apartment near campus, and they lived there with her for a year. She is an interesting creature, and many in our family are wondering if she ever faces failure what she will do.
I never dropped in on my daughter without advance notice, and I've told my youngest son to be ready for adulthood in five years (he turns 13 in two months).
When my wife asks me why I'm so "mean" to my 25 year old son, I respond "when I was his age, I was in my third year in Germany, commanded 3 platoons, and had just enjoyed the best summer of my life as an XO of a detachment on a German base. He needs to move out of the house and get on with his life. I will continue to push...I'm his father, not his friend."
I've made the decision to retire in 3 years. I'll be 63 and I want to enjoy life while my health is good. I'll still do something to earn additional money, but I will choose what it will be.
My dad graduated high school at 15 and started at Ohio State when he was 15 (turning 16 in October). He attended college without his parents along for the ride and hated it because none of he college girls would date him because he was so young. So after a 2 years he decided to leave college and return home where he worked in the local steel mill. He hated that worse. So after a couple of years there he joined the Army when WWII broke out. His dad, my grandfather had already been drafted as an officer and had been sent to Europe to fight near the German border. My dad ended up in Italy. After the war my dad finally went back to college to become a Dr.
There is a real tendency to expand adolescence in this country. LIBs are adolescents all their worthless lives.
I have to admit that I wanted to move to the same state as my son who played football because I wanted to go to all his games. He got a shoulder injury so it put a kibosh on the move.
Pshaw—I graduated high school at 16 and didn’t need a chaperone at college.
You’ve got a 25yo son still at home and you don’t put up with BS?
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