Was I wrong?

[SummerChild]

Soror, I don't think that you were wrong for advising her that it could be limiting. Perhaps there was a gentler way of doing so but whatever.

Perhaps you should also explain that college is about more than what you learn in a textbook. It's also about learning how to stand on your own two feet out of the shadow of your parents and that is a skill that is invaluable and one that many people who go to school around the corner from their parents never get. they end up moving back home after college or being afraid to venture out into the world many times limiting themselves to jobs and opportunities around the corner from the only backyard that they have ever known.

SC

Originally posted by LADY_1908
I have a co-worker who's daughter will be entering her Junior year of High School in September. The other day there was some discussion about tuition costs..yadda, yadda

So when I have a chance to talk with her privately, I inform her about various internships and opportunities (I forgot to add that she almost paid someone $1,500 to "research" scholarships for her).

Anyway, ole girl flips when I mention schools that aren't in the Philadelphia area. She says that she "would die" before she ever let her daughter go away to college. I'm like WTH?

I told her that I could not believe that she would limit her daughter's future like that.

Was I wrong...did I "cross the line"?