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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents! You do NOT need access or even possess your child’s class syllabus!! Please-they need to manage it! [/quote]

Why do you care. I don't disagree with you but it doesn't harm me nor is it any of my business what other parents do. [/quote]

Because if your kid "needs" their parents help to manage college at the level of syllabi then the kid should not be at college yet.  They belong at a CC and living at home.  Not at a 4 year college.  If your kid's adhd/anxiety is not managed well enough that they can do this themselves without more than a reminder to organize their syllabi/read them and put the due dates into a calendar, then they are not ready to manage college.

Signed, 
Parent of a kid with ADHD/Anxiety

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Totally agree.  Thank you for being the voice of reason.  Some parents may not realize how much damage they cause their child. [/quote]

Chiming in to agree. One of ours has both Anxiety and ADHD and I get so tired of people using this as an excuse for either poor behavior or micromanaging. Our focus was on finding the combo of meds and/or therapies that allowed our kid to function as an independent person. The world doesn’t change for them. They have to figure out how to manage themselves and function in it. [/quote]

+1
My kid was not officially diagnosed with ADHD until freshman year of college.  The learning issues, lack of EF and anxiety had been extremely well managed in ES/MS/HS with tutoring and interventions (never had even a 504 because it's not worth the fight to get little to no accommodations).  But college is a new level of challenges, especially for someone without much EF.  Yet, I remained behind the scenes and mainly had discussions with my kid for what they needed to do to navigate issues.  They had to actually do it all and they did it quite well.  It was an adjustment, took 2 Ws freshman year to save their GPA and mental health and a major switch heading into sophomore year.  But if I hadn't thought they could manage it, we wouldn't have allowed them to select a school 2.5K miles from home--they would have been at a local school or CC and living at home if that was needed.  [/quote]

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