<p>I used to cajole, plead, beg S#1 to answer certain posts on his college's forum when I found lots of misinformation being disseminated. He would never come on here himself.</p>
<p>A few times my daughter posted here - using MY screen name! Mostly my family is, at best, mildly interested and vaguely tolerant of my CC addiction. They do agree that we've benefitted by what I've learned here.</p>
<p>My oldest S used it when he was applying, now both my twins are using it. We think it's great entertainment. The game threads are really fun to look at. We also love to watch people speculating over inane things like the size of the envelopes and we like how you can watch the acceptance letters moving across the country for the schools who notify by snail mail.</p>
<p>My D does read and post but I think she gets a little more nervous. I share her screen name. I try not to tell her about things like likely letters but she found out about them on this site. Now she's a little upset she didn't get one but understands that it doesn't mean anything. Just a little bummed. She spends more time reading the MIT blogs, youtube stuff though.</p>
<p>My daughter discovered CC several years ago while surfing the Internet for college information. I learned about CC from her. She and I have been using CC as an information source ever since. We have found CC to be a wealth of useful, timely, and often entertaining information. </p>
<p>I joined CC (one of only two Internet forums to which I belong) in December 2007, but I didn't post for the first time until February 2008, when I needed information about the college alumni interview process. Now that my daughter is actively engaged in the college/scholarship/financial aid application process, she and I browse CC daily (several times daily, in fact). We use CC with discretion; we distinguish fact from opinion, help from hype, and usefulness from uselessness. </p>
<p>My household has just one CC member account: mine. I write all TimeCruncher posts, and I post to CC as I see fit. My daughter reads all of my posts, as well as the posts of those to whom I respond, and the posts of those who respond to me. I have forbidden my daughter to post to CC under my username, and I trust her not to do so. She knows that if she ever betrayed my trust, I would shut down my CC member account so fast that our household computer keyboard would catch fire!</p>
<p>I have kept my parents from knowing that this site exists. I can't imagine the comparisons and worries this site will create in them.</p>
<p>I haven't shared the site with my kids. </p>
<p>Y'all say the family thinks you are OCD. I know I am OCD about CC. Spend way too much of my day checking my favorite threads.</p>
<p>My children don't want anything to do with it; they consider this part of my continued interest in helping them have the best match for them. I pass on my son's insights about his school, but that's as close to he gets to being on CC.</p>
<p>I can quit CC ANY TIME I want to!</p>
<p>Sure, sure, astrophysicsmom. ;)</p>
<p>I do think it's funny that there are kids who post and parents who post, but hardly any families where both parents and kids are posting regularly.</p>
<p>I keep my mother away from this site for her own health. I think she'd have a heart attack if she saw the umpteen thousand posts about how difficult this year is for admissions and how much of a failure I am, etc.</p>