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<blockquote data-quote="LittleDudesMom" data-source="post: 591001" data-attributes="member: 805"><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="font-size: 12px">MWM,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="font-size: 12px">please don't take this the wrong way, but I think you need to let her handle this. You can't stop these schools from sending out the letters. You can be frustrated and I do understand that. However, Jumper, from everything I understand through your words on this board, is a pretty together young woman. Let her figure this out. She will realize that her grades are not good enough for a top school through the application process. It's part of life.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Listen, my easy child had fabulous grades and extra curricular stuff, got into university that had the best fine arts dept on the east coast to major in photography -- was so darn excited and ready. She hated it. It was not what she thought it would be, she was out on her own and things fell apart. She ended up with depression, left the university after the first year and didn't know what she was going to do. But through it all, I sat by letting her make the choices, but gently there in case she needed me.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The only thing I "insisted" on, was that she stay in college (she began at a community college the next fall). Fast forward 2.5 years later, she now has a wonderful apartment that she has decorated, is attending college to pursue a degree in special education, has a fabulous job for a wealthy family as their nanny, and is mentally and emotionally happy. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="font-size: 12px">She did it at her own pace, made her own mistakes and learned some fabulous life lessons along the way. I don't believe she would have arrived here if I made the choices for her or tried to protect her from the realities of life.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Sharon</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LittleDudesMom, post: 591001, member: 805"] [FONT=comic sans ms][SIZE=3]MWM, please don't take this the wrong way, but I think you need to let her handle this. You can't stop these schools from sending out the letters. You can be frustrated and I do understand that. However, Jumper, from everything I understand through your words on this board, is a pretty together young woman. Let her figure this out. She will realize that her grades are not good enough for a top school through the application process. It's part of life. Listen, my easy child had fabulous grades and extra curricular stuff, got into university that had the best fine arts dept on the east coast to major in photography -- was so darn excited and ready. She hated it. It was not what she thought it would be, she was out on her own and things fell apart. She ended up with depression, left the university after the first year and didn't know what she was going to do. But through it all, I sat by letting her make the choices, but gently there in case she needed me. The only thing I "insisted" on, was that she stay in college (she began at a community college the next fall). Fast forward 2.5 years later, she now has a wonderful apartment that she has decorated, is attending college to pursue a degree in special education, has a fabulous job for a wealthy family as their nanny, and is mentally and emotionally happy. She did it at her own pace, made her own mistakes and learned some fabulous life lessons along the way. I don't believe she would have arrived here if I made the choices for her or tried to protect her from the realities of life. Sharon [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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