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[quote=Anonymous]My biggest advice is to back off and let them think/breathe/explore for themselves when they get to college. We have 4 kids, currently 25-35. With my oldest, we were just too involved and way too pushy (in retrospect). She was always the top of her class, super perfectionist high achiever, and - again, in retrospect - terrified of messing up or disappointing us. My husband pushed her to apply to Law school and she did, and it was just not the right call for her. She even had a little panic over that summer and told us she didn't want to go to law school, she wanted to just take some time and try something else and explore what she really wanted to do. What we should've done is listened to her...but she had gotten into a top law school and we were so focused on achievement that we pushed her to "just go and give it a chance." Itwas a mistake. Honestly our younger kids, whom we were less overinvolved with when it came to choosing classes/majors/etc are he ones who are truly happy and well-adjusted. Don't be helicopter parents, and parent the kid you have [/quote]

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