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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you people expect your children to survive in college?[/quote]
I'm 17:51, and I'll take that question. Everything I'm willing to do, I see as supporting my kids, not doing their actual work for them. That list is all things I did for DH while he was working full time and doing grad school at night.

In college, the kids will have more free time available for studying on a day-to-day basis. Right now they're at school for 8 hours a day, have at least a few hours of homework a night due the next day, and an hour or two of extra-curriculars.  In university, they will have maybe 3-5 hours of actual class time on a given day and the remainder of the day is available for study time. Even if they do have 120 pages of reading, it will probably be over the course of 2 nights not overnight since most classes are every other day, and they will probably have a time other than dinner time to do it. For high achievers, in terms of just time management, I think high school is probably worse than college or grad school. As long as it doesn't compromise my ethics, I'm willing to do anything I can in the background to support my kids in their studies.[/quote]

I think if you are doing their work for them and managing their time, your "high achiever" is not really a high achiever, just well-supported by resources.  That is incredibly unfair to the actual high achievers who might be one or two extra curriculars short for that Ivy admission because they actually did their own work and managed their own time and knew they couldn't fit that extra resume padding activity in.  In the end, though, that kid will be better off because he or she actually earns their own college admission and will probably be better prepared for college -- and life.[/quote]

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