Posted on 06/07/2006 11:10:49 AM PDT by Positive
Well, I've been around here for 8 years or so...
I don't think I have ever asked Freepers for help for myself. I have asked for help for a person in distress who is from the UK and was having a crisis in Fresno, CA...Freepers came through.
So here is my problem...my 18 year old daughter, who was raised by her mother since our split 8 years ago, announced at her high school graduation last Sunday that she will be attending San Francisco State University.
I have spoken with her about it, and the conversation was confrontational and unproductive...
Please, anybody, would you share with me any information that might cause her to reconsider...she knows I'm a conservative, she "knows" she's a liberal...in fact, of course, as is usually the case when one is 18 she "knows" everything....
You are going to have to look long and hard to find any college or univesity that hasn't been infected. They're even in the church colleges.
Tell her you think it is wonderful she is moving closer to Michael Savage.
If she's paying, then wish her luck. If she expects you to pay.. tell her the bad news..
At any rate, if you're paying for college, don't pay up front.. Have your offspring come up with the money and you reimburse after you see the grades. This can be semester by semester or what ever you agree upon. And don't pay for classes that are below a certain grade..
It keeps them focused... and they appreciate how much work it takes to come up with the money
Or, on the other hand, you could just let her live her life.
That's the spirit! She has the rest of her lifetime to become conservative. She might become a NRA Lifetime regardless.
She may just have to go thru a few of those processes and the quicker she does the quicker she may change her view.
This, of course, will require you stepping out of the way as hard as that is...
Yeah, my 18 year old daughter knows everything also.
At least she did not pick out too crappy a school.
Who pays her tuition?
My daughter (more conservative than me!) had an $80,000 scholarship to Northwestern in Illinois. She went ahead and made a campus visit to Texas A&M even though she believed sh was going to Northwestern and called that weekend to tell me that she really wanted to go to A&M after the visit. She had already been accepted so it was an answer to this mother's prayer.
Tell her to keep away from any Lacrosse players they might have?
Ditto. I told my son I would pay for his college and he won't go.
I love it
I agree with the others: Just refuse to pay the tuition.
If she's paying for it herself, you can try to talk her into another university. Otherwise, there's not much you can do.
As a divorced dad, are you required to pay her college tuition? If so, don't you have a say as to which school she attends?
I tell my kids that, when they grow up, get jobs, and move out on their own, then they can start making their own decisions. As long as their father and I are paying their bills, it's up to us. That's what my parents always told me. I paid my own college tuition.
Don't worry. If she's observant at all, a few years of liberal outrage will turn her mind right. It happened to me.
I'd be more worried about what she's planning on majoring in, than what school. I'm no fan of SFSU.. but if she's planning on majoring in business she'll be ok.. if she's planning on majoring in womens studies... or some other ephemerial crap major, I'd sit down and just have a long talk with her about the financial cost and reward of such a foolish endeavor.
I was conservative long before I reached college and no school would have changed my mind on those principles even if I wound up at the most uberliberal university around.
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