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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Such ungrateful people.  All thriving at college on their parents dime.

It’s hard to get along with people with difficult personality traits, but you should respect your parents contributions to your life.  Raising kids is quite difficult and all of us are flawed.

Hopefully your children will be more accepting of your flaws than you are of your parents.[/quote]
Oh, you are so wrong.  My parents continually tried to cut me off, little by little and in the most harmful way possible.  Freshman year my parents announced during Freshman orientation that my books were too expensive, so they weren't paying.  So I got three jobs that semester and managed to purchase my books by Thanksgiving.  The next semester my dad announced that he was removing me from his health insurance even though keeping me on cost him nothing (it was the same price for 3+ kids).  I finally talked him out of that because it was going to cost me thousands and I couldn't go back to college without insurance.  That was the same semester he took the rest of the family for a week long ski trip in Utah, when I'd never gone on a family vacation in my whole life.  The next year my parents told me just before school started that they wouldn't cover the meal plan so I ended up working even more and borrowing leftover food from friends.  The following year he cut off any contribution to my tuition, telling me the week before school started.  I sobbed my heart out at the financial aid office and they took pity on me and gave me a loan for his contribution.  Later that semester he told me I could no longer use his address for my car insurance, which cost him nothing.  So I had to get my own policy as a 20 yo and re-register my car on campus, all on my dime.

It was one thing after another all of college.  Why?  My dad had some misguided view that I needed to be "independent."  Meanwhile my little sister asked for a pool and they had a pool and deck installed in the backyard.  They took extravagant vacations.   My siblings were gifted iPods, laptops, and dSLRs at Christmas.  I was told I was an adult so I shouldn't expect Christmas presents.  At school I raided food pantry boxes to eat and begged food scraps from friends.  It was really, really stressful.

And on top of it all, my parents made each decision to cut me off further at the worst possible moment, every single time like the day before tuition was due or one month after I'd just paid to re-register my car in my home state.  Every single time my dad did his best to leave me with no options.  It was spiteful and mean.  So no, I'm not just going to forget.[/quote]

Sounds brutal, but i think my parents outdid yours.  They made me pay rent the day I turned 18 (I was still in HS). They did not pay for my college at all.  They did not agree to co-sign student loan.  While paying for my little brother's private school.[/quote]

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