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<blockquote data-quote="DaddyW" data-source="post: 552525" data-attributes="member: 15263"><p>Hello everyone,</p><p></p><p>I am new so if I posted this in the wrong place I do apologize. </p><p></p><p>My wife and I have a child who has entered college and is age 18. She graduated from a private highschool with honors and is studying on a pre-medication track. She bugged us to send her to that school. She lives at home and goes to a university in our town, she even has a full ride scholarship. She has been a mostly wonderful child growing up. She has been an excellent student and very well behaved, the kind of kid everybody would rely on as she was always very mature. </p><p></p><p>About the time she entered college this fall, she started to say things like she never felt like she really had the chance to be a kid or have a social life. She has become very short with her mother (my wife) and I and just as if she is going through a rebellious stage most kids go through at at 13 to 16. She is never around and hangs out with younger kids...highschool kids which is not such a big deal but her first chemistry quiz, she got a 72%. That is not bad if you are not on a specialized track but she cannot afford those kinds of grade if she hopes to get into medical school. Also, she does not have a job and we are not requiring her to as long as her grades are up there. The problem is she will drive her car 70 miles round trip just to go and hang out with her friends on a daily basis and gas is not cheap. When we try to confront her, she becomes very short and runs off. </p><p></p><p>Her Meyers-Briggs personality profile is ENFJ. She is also an only child. </p><p></p><p>I know there are probably many details I am overlooking but that is for starters. Anything any of you can offer, I will be very appreciative.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaddyW, post: 552525, member: 15263"] Hello everyone, I am new so if I posted this in the wrong place I do apologize. My wife and I have a child who has entered college and is age 18. She graduated from a private highschool with honors and is studying on a pre-medication track. She bugged us to send her to that school. She lives at home and goes to a university in our town, she even has a full ride scholarship. She has been a mostly wonderful child growing up. She has been an excellent student and very well behaved, the kind of kid everybody would rely on as she was always very mature. About the time she entered college this fall, she started to say things like she never felt like she really had the chance to be a kid or have a social life. She has become very short with her mother (my wife) and I and just as if she is going through a rebellious stage most kids go through at at 13 to 16. She is never around and hangs out with younger kids...highschool kids which is not such a big deal but her first chemistry quiz, she got a 72%. That is not bad if you are not on a specialized track but she cannot afford those kinds of grade if she hopes to get into medical school. Also, she does not have a job and we are not requiring her to as long as her grades are up there. The problem is she will drive her car 70 miles round trip just to go and hang out with her friends on a daily basis and gas is not cheap. When we try to confront her, she becomes very short and runs off. Her Meyers-Briggs personality profile is ENFJ. She is also an only child. I know there are probably many details I am overlooking but that is for starters. Anything any of you can offer, I will be very appreciative. [/QUOTE]
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