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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I started the non-profit so aren’t I the best one to write about it. Just kidding my kids are tok young [/quote]

But, you're not far from the mark with some of these parents. Honestly, I get that it's a crazy process and am all about helping, but the kid has got to do their own writing. Offer feedback or ask questions or even do research on unique aspects of the college that kid might want to include in supplements, but don't write or rewrite in the name of editing.  If it's the kid "putting their spin" on the your writing or vice versa, you are still a writer in the process. It should be the kid. Parent writing/heavy editing just smacks of entitlement -- like the subtext is "my Big 3 kid deserves this, so I'm just part of the process." Ugh.

I do think conversing w/ kids about aspects of the essay helps them clarify their ideas, and for essays where they have to write about themselves, parents (& friends) can be really useful to help them see themselves from outside themselves. But, parents shouldn't be writing or sculpting or whatever people want to rename it as.[/quote]

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