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.)
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?