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9 Baby-boomer parents seem to struggle with two things:saying no and letting go. The teaching assistants massedtogether in the theatre were advised to send unhappy parentsdirectly to professors. I sat in disbelief, but yes, it happens.
10 Mom and Dad, your children are no longer children.Rather, they are eagerly trying to be adults. So whatever areyou doing in line with them at the registrar’s office?
11 Twenty years ago, when I first entered university, parentsdid not follow their children all the way there. My parentsdropped me at the front door of St. Hilda’s College at theUniversity of Toronto and drove five hours back home.
12 I was not ready, prepared or clearly aware about whatwould happen over the course of the next four years, but Imuddled through. From professors and teaching assistants toregistrars and student-loan officers, I learned to find my waythrough the perils and pleasures of university life. Naturally, Imade mistakes, but then I still do.
13 Were my parents not caring or uninterested? Not at all.What they were not was university-educated baby-boomers whobelieve all events must be designed and controlled and thateverything I did was a direct reflection on them.
14 My parents came from another generation. They never setfoot in a university. They were pleased, and supportive, when Idecided to attend but they considered me an adult at 18.
15 The incident I saw in the registrar’s office was not anunusual sight. I wish it were. Rather, about six people behindme in line, I discovered another parent-child grouping. This timea son was pleading with his mother to stay put while he went tothe counter and dealt with the problem himself. They were stillnegotiating when I left.
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