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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I disagree with the other posters.

Your husband saying HE will write their essays at the deadline is a huge red flag to me. Help them, yes. But write them for the kids? That's awful and teaching the kids horrible life lessons.

I would try to compromise with your husband/the kids and figure out a reasonable schedule. If they want to apply by October 15 and November 1, you need to tell them they need to have a first draft done by X date and they will not get their devices/car privileges until the first draft is done. I would absolutely put my foot down and not let your husband write the essays for them. You can be flexible on not applying early decision, whatever, but allowing a parent to write the essay will lead your kids to think someone will always be there to do their work for them and bail them out.[/quote]

I know a woman who wrote everything for her daughter.  Papers, essays, anything that can be done outside of class from middle school through high school.  She had to leave her first college. She did graduate the second one.  She is directionless.  She was addicted to drugs but is sober now.   She has family money for rent, expenses, etc.

Not that this is going to happen if the father writes the essays but the sense of entitlement won’t go away so easily.  [/quote]

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