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WHAT?

Lady, I had a 3.1 GPA when I graduated high school. I went on to a state university, and then to a second tier medical school and now here I am, a doctor  making more than $300,000 every year. I was absolutely ready for further schooling, just not for Harvard. And if I hadn't had nice parents who paid the in-state tuition for my college and then contributed 50% to medical school, I wouldn't be where I am today.

You're an awful mother, limiting your child's opportunities because you're determined to be pessimistic and can't see the potential in him. You're supposed to help your child get through life, not hold him back. Do you know how much even state universities cost these days? They were cheaper in my time but they've soared in cost since then. It is unreasonable, cruel and stupid to expect a high school kid to bear the entire responsibility of their college expenses. You're a terrible parent.[/quote]

Curious.  Now that you make 300k, are you paying your parents back?[/quote]

I'm the doctor PP. They have their retirement fund set up and paying them back in the sense that you describe is not something that we'd consider in our family, because our close family bond is such that they know I'm going to contribute to their retirement fund and take care of them in their old age. (My dad's about to retire in a year or two but he and my mother are never going to go into a nursing home even at their oldest and most decrepit. They'll always live in their house or my house and I'll cover all the nurse and medical expenses.) I also buy them expensive gifts, sometimes physical gifts like a car or sometimes spa days or holiday cruise packages.

And of course, the best repayment of all: love and loyalty, and a close bond.[/quote]

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