Skills for college preparedness

[Anonymous]

Financial awareness, budgeting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Checking your email!

LOL - THIS is amazingly difficult for this generation! Even the very organized kids, succeeding with very rigorous course loads seem to be lacking in the "nuances" and "etiquette" of emails...

Why is it so hard? My DC is very independent and successful in almost all other ways, but I find myself saying “Have you checked your email?” about once a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Checking your email!

LOL - THIS is amazingly difficult for this generation! Even the very organized kids, succeeding with very rigorous course loads seem to be lacking in the "nuances" and "etiquette" of emails...

Why is it so hard? My DC is very independent and successful in almost all other ways, but I find myself saying “Have you checked your email?” about once a week.

I honestly thought it was just my kid. Still can't believe he got into the college he did when he can't manage an email account

[Anonymous]

Knowing how much they can drink and how to handle their drinking

[Anonymous]

Both boys and girls should be aware of not being alone with the opposite sex as either can make false accusations.

The rules of Consent should be stressed with both sexes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They handled all of their own business before they turned 18. When they turn 18, my job is done. I've given them all the knowledge they need in order to be successful and independent and free. The rest of their lives are completely up to them. They've been raised well. They've know how to hustle. I do not pay for college, that is an adult decision to make, after they become adults.
I did not choose to go to college. I had more important things to do with my life. My career choice was to teach myself how to do everything, I've done that for more than 30 years, and I continue to do that, because if you only go down one path, how much of the rest of the world do you miss?

18 year olds do not know everything they need to know and do not have the judgment of older adults. I represent foster kids and many of my clients struggle because they have no choice but to be completely independent at age 18. Don't do that to your kid.

[Anonymous]

Making phone calls. So many kids I know hate to call about anything. They are completely lost as to what they should say.

[Anonymous]

How to relate to adults. You never know if your lab partner is someone old enough to be your parents and the college experience is just as new and hard for them also. Can openers. Knowing that the time on the food you make is not a suggestion, but the time it takes to make the chicken not raw. Know you has your back and won’t leave you at a frat party alone, regardless of how cute the guys are. Understand as a parent I am not being mean when I say “learn to do it yourself”

[Anonymous]

Remembering to take a bc pill every single night

[Anonymous]

I had no role to play other than to be supportive, but my son's experience in becoming an Eagle Scout absolutely prepared him for college. He became independent, resilient, learned collaboration and organizational skills, came to understand how to set and achieve goals, and became comfortable interacting with adults outside his own family through interactions with the Troop's adult leadership.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remembering to take a bc pill every single night

They should just get an IUD instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They handled all of their own business before they turned 18. When they turn 18, my job is done. I've given them all the knowledge they need in order to be successful and independent and free. The rest of their lives are completely up to them. They've been raised well. They've know how to hustle. I do not pay for college, that is an adult decision to make, after they become adults.
I did not choose to go to college. I had more important things to do with my life. My career choice was to teach myself how to do everything, I've done that for more than 30 years, and I continue to do that, because if you only go down one path, how much of the rest of the world do you miss?

You need to get off this forum. You've been all over these threads bragging about how much you didn't do for your children and how fabulous your freestyle life is. No one asked you about your life and this is not helpful to those of us asking legitimate questions on how to support our children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Knowing how much they can drink and how to handle their drinking

Parents who condone under age drinking have made a big mistake. Teens cannot be taught or lectured into being an adult. They are developmentally not ready.

Thousands of lives were saved by increasing the drinking age in the US. That law has been scientifically and rigorously evaluated.

If you think everyone does it or you did it so it must be safe, you really set your kid up for a riskier college experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Checking your email!

LOL - THIS is amazingly difficult for this generation! Even the very organized kids, succeeding with very rigorous course loads seem to be lacking in the "nuances" and "etiquette" of emails...

Why is it so hard? My DC is very independent and successful in almost all other ways, but I find myself saying “Have you checked your email?” about once a week.

I honestly thought it was just my kid. Still can't believe he got into the college he did when he can't manage an email account

Because they deal in a Snapchat and Instagram world. They view email no different to how we view snail mail. To the OP, organizational and note taking skills are essential as unless in a very small school, students are on their own.