Comments on: Parenting College Freshman from a Distance http://www.educatednation.com/2006/07/31/parenting-college-freshman-from-a-distance/ A higher education blog about news, humor, advice, and opinion on education, college degrees, university life and careers. Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:03:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Katie Holmes http://www.educatednation.com/2006/07/31/parenting-college-freshman-from-a-distance/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Katie Holmes Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:07:53 +0000 http://www.educatednation.com/2006/07/31/parenting-college-freshman-from-a-distance/#comment-40 I think it's disgusting that colleges have to actually hold sessions for parents on how to let their children be adults. What is this world coming to when your own child can't even figure out how to do his own laundry at 18? Our country deems 18 year olds (the age of most college freshman) mature enough to elect political leaders, get married, gamble their money away (on indian reservations at least), work full-time, legally damage their bodies by smoking and even die for their country. It saddens me that even though 18 year olds are given all this legal freedom, most have been coddled and sheltered for so long by the parents who 20 years ago exercised these same freedoms, that they can barely handle the pressures of having to do their own dishes. Everyone, kids and parents, just need to all grow up and be adults. I think it’s disgusting that colleges have to actually hold sessions for parents on how to let their children be adults. What is this world coming to when your own child can’t even figure out how to do his own laundry at 18?

Our country deems 18 year olds (the age of most college freshman) mature enough to elect political leaders, get married, gamble their money away (on indian reservations at least), work full-time, legally damage their bodies by smoking and even die for their country. It saddens me that even though 18 year olds are given all this legal freedom, most have been coddled and sheltered for so long by the parents who 20 years ago exercised these same freedoms, that they can barely handle the pressures of having to do their own dishes.

Everyone, kids and parents, just need to all grow up and be adults.

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