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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
This seems like another layer of helicoptering. A gap year your parents make you do and organize or pay for is likely to do nothing for their actual development.

Is it just the parent paying for it that bothers you? Why/how is a parent paying for college for the same aged child not "helicoptering"? Most people benefit greatly from exposure to other cultures.

It's micromanaging your kid in a way inappropriate for an 18 year old.

Many kids get their gap year paid for but with the obvious caveat that[b] they plan their time in an educational way[/b]. I'm not funding a "gap year" of sitting on the couch. I'm not sure why you would assume otherwise.

but [b]it's still micromanaging to think you have to program and dictate what they do for another year[/b]. parent who can't let go of control. I do have sympathy for the students burned out after a super intense HS program, but that probably speaks to HS being overly helicoptered as well.[/quote]

These two posters are talking past each other.  Not micromanaging to allow your kid to make plans for their year that do not include going to college.  (But it is micromanaging if the parent is telling the kid they have to do a gap year, or dictating what they do.)[/quote]

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