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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - I'm the SLAC professor. Thank you for periodically coming back to chime in and read through the thread. You sound like a very thoughtful parent and I wish that all of my students had parents who were helping them with both the soft and hard skills needed to succeed in college, and then more importantly, later in the world. [/quote]

Thank you very much SLAC professor.  I have tried hard to work as a team player in our DC’s education because raising children is not an individual sport. It has been helpful to hear what areas to encourage our DC to work on before college years.

One of my favorite poems “On Children” is by the Lebanese American philosopher [u]Kahlil Gibran[/u] (1883 – 1931). This poem is 100 years old this year and remains as relevant as ever in our rapidly changing world and advanced technology. My own mother introduced it to me many years ago but I didn’t really appreciate the layers until launching our first child. Parents like teachers, are stewards whom we seek to guide well. But ultimately, it is up to our children/ students to live into their life purpose and dreams.

[b]On Children[/b]

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said,  Speak to us of Children.  And he said:

Your children are not your children.     
 
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
     
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.      
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;

For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

From The Prophet (Knopf, 1923).

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