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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with others.  Kids have no resilience.  They are helicoptered to perfection.  If they don’t get an A, the parents call their teacher (or the principal) and complain so now everyone gets an A.  In college, when in theory, they fall apart.  In weeder classes (which they are all in because their helicopter parents require them to
Major in CS, engineering or pre-meds types of majors) Cs are not uncommon and they freak out.

People are doing their kids no favors with the intense helicoptering.  Let them struggle or fail.  Let them figure it out!
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The number of freshman parents looking for computer science tutors on the Cornell parents Facebook page is shocking.
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My kid is studying CS at a supposedly high-stress place...and loves it.  Feels like they have finally found their people, joined a frat, playing a club sport (that they stopped playing in 6th grade), doing well academically.  My first piece of advice was to not stress about straight As...do well, but a 4.0 isn't that important anymore.

It helps my kid loves CS.  The frat has lots of CS kids and it's like a hacker house where they are plugging away on their own projects in their spare time.

My kid knows many kids who are struggling quite a bit because they honestly aren't particularly interested in CS, but their parents pushed them to it...and these kids can no longer brute force their way through these classes.  [/quote]

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