Parenting in the modern age now often means assisting your college kids in finding internships.

[Anonymous]

Helicopter forever

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/boll-branch-ceo-says-parents-message-him-to-get-their-kids-a-summer-internship.html

[Anonymous]

Parents are sabotaging their kids. Sad.

- parent of a college aged kid who got all of the fabulous internships (every year) all on their own.

We offered some advice here and there but they prepped all on their own. DC's interviewing skills are better than mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents are sabotaging their kids. Sad.

- parent of a college aged kid who got all of the fabulous internships (every year) all on their own.

We offered some advice here and there but they prepped all on their own. DC's interviewing skills are better than mine.

Same for us and our kids take great pride in doing that stuff on their own. They know we are here for support and to answer any questions.

[Anonymous]

OP’s title for this thread doesn’t match the article. Parents can and should help their kids find internships, or jobs, just like my adult friends help me network and look for jobs when I want to change companies. That doesn’t mean the parent should reach out to the hiring manager on behalf of their kid, of course — which is the opposite of helping, because it makes the kid less likely to be taken seriously. Helping means they should pass the job posting to their kid and offer to proofread their resume. Things I have done for friends and family (and will do for my kid), and they have done for me, for decades. That’s just networking.

[Anonymous]

Parents have been getting jobs for their kids for generations. That’s the old boy old money way.

[Anonymous]

This is a UMC White privilege topic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents are sabotaging their kids. Sad.

- parent of a college aged kid who got all of the fabulous internships (every year) all on their own.

We offered some advice here and there but they prepped all on their own. DC's interviewing skills are better than mine.

Same for us and our kids take great pride in doing that stuff on their own. They know we are here for support and to answer any questions.

Same here. My kid won't even take my advice, he still thinks I'm an idiot be virtue of being his parent.

[Anonymous]

Not new information. In 2010 when I would tell parents their child needed to contact me, not them, they'd whine, "but they are so busy."

My response was always the same, "my email is available 24x7x365."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Helicopter forever

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/boll-branch-ceo-says-parents-message-him-to-get-their-kids-a-summer-internship.html

The wealthy and connected have got you all confused. If you don’t think Daddy and Mommy’s connections aren’t being exploited at every opportunity you’re doomed to fail

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents are sabotaging their kids. Sad.

- parent of a college aged kid who got all of the fabulous internships (every year) all on their own.

We offered some advice here and there but they prepped all on their own. DC's interviewing skills are better than mine.

Same.
We had no advice to offer, their fields of interest are not understood well by us. They asked their professors and upperclassmen, did resumes themselves, got internships every year, some of them quite prestigious.

[Anonymous]

My kid has one as a sophomore. Ivy. He has one already for summer too.

We did nothing. His profs lined up- had him apply after he inquired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid has one as a sophomore. Ivy. He has one already for summer too.

We did nothing. His profs lined up- had him apply after he inquired.

In what field? Profs are not helpful in all fields.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP’s title for this thread doesn’t match the article. Parents can and should help their kids find internships, or jobs, just like my adult friends help me network and look for jobs when I want to change companies. That doesn’t mean the parent should reach out to the hiring manager on behalf of their kid, of course — which is the opposite of helping, because it makes the kid less likely to be taken seriously. Helping means they should pass the job posting to their kid and offer to proofread their resume. Things I have done for friends and family (and will do for my kid), and they have done for me, for decades. That’s just networking.

Agree. I just helped my kid find an internship through a professional connection I have. But kid emailed my contact and took it from there.

[Anonymous]

Making your kid suffer is not a badge of honor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid has one as a sophomore. Ivy. He has one already for summer too.

We did nothing. His profs lined up- had him apply after he inquired.

I think paying Ivy tuition counts as doing something