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Summer transitions
Two transitions are on my mind today. First, a short drive in the last hour was probably the last time this summer I will sit by my son as he drives to his volunteer hours at the local animal shelter. Assuming he passes his road test in the very near future, he’ll have a driver’s […]
“Teachers college” was always a misnomer
Kevin Carey writes about the dilemmas of regional state universities that used to be teachers colleges. There are real dilemmas of upward institutional trajectories/ambitions, and in many cases, there are institutions that have moved in the way he has, such as Illinois State University, where the city of Normal, Illinois reveals its origins as Illinois […]
Helicopter parent with RPG (rocket-propelled grandstanding)
I'm visiting my daughter this weekend, and apart from enjoying the considerably cooler weather and just-past-peak leaves (those in New England, stop laughing: I live in Florida, and when I left Tampa, it was 86 F. and humid), I've been thinking about parent-child relationships after the adult child goes to college. A number of parents […]
OMG–helicopter parents!
Some observations as my daughter watched her friends head to college in the past week and then moved in herself: One friend of my daughter reports that her roommate at a public university brought a flat-screen television along with a microwave and mini-fridge. At first, my daughter thought that this was stereotypical university overindulgence. No, […]
Happy Mother’s Day! and some random thoughts
By Sherman Dorn on May 8, 2011
Happy Mother's Day! Both of our children were born in May, and I made sure to get some flowers for my wonderful spouse. For those with an historical bent, I recommend last year's Backstory Radio podcast on Mother's Day. For my present to my own mother, I decided not to call her when I got […]
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