Taking Into Consideration The Parents Advice Choosing A College
Wise advice of experienced people
Wise advice of experienced people
Making a choice of a would-be college is one of the most important cross-roads in every life. It is too serious for a school-leaver to be left alone with this problem. That is where dear and near are ready and eager to help. Though sometimes their advice may be even obtrusive, it is worth to at least consider it if not to follow.
There are four main reasons to do it:
parents life experience speaks for them;
they know their child since the day of his/her birth, so they are aware of his/her abilities like nobody else;
their child is similar to them and they can help him/her to avoid their own mistakes of youth;
they love him/her so sincere that wish only everything the best to him/her.
Though the generation gap still stands it could be very useful to conclude at least temporary armistice. It is amazing that to prevent the eternal I have told you in future one or two productive conversations at present would be enough. Conducting negotiations with parents will help in gaining authority of a grown-up person.
Listening to advice, not being deprived from the right to express ones opinion
On the other hand, parents, though grown-up and experienced, still remain human beings with their weaknesses and lacks. Sometimes they refuse to admit the fact that their children are grown-up enough to have an opinion of their own. Parents should check themselves if they do not making the following common mistakes while giving their piece of advice:
if they want their children to realize their own dreams of youth;
if they are ignoring personal wishes and inclinations of the child.
It should be admitted that in these situations the negotiations will do good again. Parents must be able to admit their mistakes when the choice of the college is at stake.