Students’ pressure sometimes comes from their parents. Most parents are well ________, but some of them aren’t very helpful with the problems their sons and daughters have in ________ to college, and a few of them seem to go out of their way to add to their children’s difficulties.
For one thing, parents are often not ________ of the kinds of problems their children face. They don’t realize that the ________ is keener, that the required ________ of work are higher, and that their children may not be prepared for the change. ________ to seeing A’s and B’s on high school report cards, they may be upset when their children’s first ________ college grades are below that level. At their kindest, they may gently ________ why John or Mary isn’t doing better, whether he or she is trying as hard as he or she should, and so on._________________________.
Sometimes parents regard their children as extensions of themselves and _____________________________ In their involvement and identification with their children, they forget that everyone is different and that each person must develop in his or her own way. They forget that their children, _______________________________.
meaning adjusting aware competition standards Accustomed semester inquire at their worst ,they may threaten to take their children out of college or cut off funds think it only right and natural that they determine what their children do with their lives who are now young adults must, be the ones responsible for what they do and what they are 15.10