Posted on 08/15/2011 5:53:49 PM PDT by cakid1
A Father's Advice ... To a Daughter heading off to College
Good Luck in College Honey!
And remember to…
Keep your faith
* Expanding your faith in Christ is more valuable than a college degree.
Keep your purity
* It’s a precious gift from God.
Study hard
* This is a race, and you’re in lane one at the pool. * Your goal is your ‘personal best.’ * Always strive for excellence –always.
Remember your manners
* A young woman of virtue and class reflects her past and projects her future – with the ‘little things.’ * ‘Please’ and ‘Thank You’ .. Open doors in life.
Use your gifts
* God has given you a sharp, agile and articulate mind – use it or lose it. * Get engaged, stay engaged - and your gifts will grow.
Avoid drugs and alcohol
* They are a trap for fools * The brightest futures are clouded by the stupor of indulgence. * Remember sometimes.. The devil wears blue jeans and has a six-pack of beer.
Choose your friends wisely
* “Show me your friends... and I’ll show you your future.”
Truth matters
* Vigorously pursue it, for at times its elusive.
Be a leader..(con't)
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.. it may encourage others...
Especially in this day and age of Kim Kardashian types..
A father’s advice to a son heading off to college.
“Look for THIS woman... and don’t try to take advantage of her.”
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Good one..!
Thanks Winstons Julia
My daughter graduated from the University of Vermont gulag as a staunch right winger like me. =)
I would add join a sorority for peer group support.
...and don’t let them brainwash you.
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When in doubt, load with hollowpoints.
If being abducted do not get in the car. Do whatever you have to do not to get in the car. If you get in the car you may find there are worse things than death.
Central is unusual in that the bishop of Grand Rapids bought a tract of land adjacent to the campus in the 1950s and later sold part of it to the Lutheran and Methodist churches. As the school grew from 4,000 to 21,000 students, it expanded around the churches, which are now in the middle of a large state university.
Another bit of advice to a son, treat your date as you would want someone to treat your wife.
Just got off the phone with my daughter who is entering her senior year in High School. Told her that I was going recommend to her going to Thomas Aquinas College (tho I didn’t tell her specifically - just said I was going to recommend a college). Her attitude was “no, no, no.”
Kids today are so indoctrinated by the public school system that they don’t take their parent’s suggestions seriously.
I think she would do great at a small, Christian (please, no fundamentalist arguments here about Papism) college that concentrates on the great books (Aristotle, Plato, Newton, Einstein, Nietzshe, Aquinas, Shakespeare... need I go on?)
Instead, her mother wants her to go to some impersonal, huge California college where she’s going to have to learn “Women’s Studies” or “Gender Identity” or whatever else loser professors in Academia have thought of since the 60’s.
I think this is even harder to go through than the original divorce (and again, for those FReepers out there who are perfect, I didn’t get divorced because I wanted to, I got divorced because either she or I would have killed the other - blame me if you want for choosing the wrong woman to marry and have a child with, but don’t blame me because the person I chose turned out to be a psychopath.)
Treat your date as you would want someone to treat your future daughter.
Depends on the sorority.
Frankly, some of them are whorehouses in training.
Before you say that your daughter needs to go to a certain college.... what is she interested in? What are her talents? What does she want to pursue?
Unfortunately, at the moment, what she wants to pursue is “Psychology”. Which, for parents who care, is nothing more than a desire to self-diagnose.
She’s smarter than that and stronger than that. And I know that if she pursues a degree in “psychology”, she’ll end up alone, miserable and unhappy.
Since my last post (10 minutes ago), I have realized that I just need to be stronger. She WILL visit the college, whether she wants to or not. At some point, she’ll have to choose between Dad and going completely off into the unknown. All I can do is try to show her the right path. But I can’t fail to try to show her the right path.
“Which, for parents who care, is nothing more than a desire to self-diagnose.”
Is she looking to do an MD? Are you saying that she has psychological problems?
Maybe you are being too hard on her.
No, she sat in on one of my neice’s college psychology courses and decided that that’s what she wanted to do.
Psychology is a very seductive major (unlike Psychiatry which requires an MD) precisely because it doesn’t require a lot of nasty stuff like math and science.
Most (90% last survey I saw?) psychologists are lefties who went into it because their parents got divorced and they want to understand “the meaning of life”.
Sorry, but the meaning of life doesn’t come out of reading Freud or Marcuse...
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