<p>Chedva,
Exactly what I was thinking! My H and I have a standing joke everytime I "lock horns" with one of my S's. H always says, "Remember, he'll eventually be the one giving you financial advice and pushing your wheelchair into the nursing home."</p>
<p>LOL! That's true. When your parents are old enough, the role of 'responsibility person'/prompter/nagger' does switch. I remind myself when I become a bit impatient w/my older parents (you <em>still</em> can't figure out email? etc.) that they were <em>very</em> patient w/me when I was young. It's good to remember that.</p>
<p>I have never been an overbearing "helicopter" parent. My D is one of those kids who just has some inner wisdom. I have stepped and offered some perspective on various things, but mostly, I've left choices up to D, and I think she's always chosen wisely - including those times when her first choice got her in over her head (Electrical Engineering Independent Study - she was not ready for that). Those missteps have helped her learn that problems are not always avoidable, but they are nearly always fixable.</p>
<p>Until now. I have somehow morphed into the overbearing mother! Mostly out of concern that we won't be able to afford to send D to all the lovely colleges she's chosen. She was very kind, though, and let me be in charge of finding acceptable colleges that are less than $30K, which is what led me to CC in the first place.</p>
<p>"Ah. I use Mozilla and it does not give the address."</p>
<p>I do too, I think you're just not looking in the right place. It's the white box at the top of the screen where you type in URLs that you know them (or they magically appear if you've gone somewhere via google.) On my screen it's on the same line and to the right of the forward and back arrows, the refresh button, the stop button, the littlh house button and then off to the right I have a smaller window where I can access google.</p>
<p>My H uses Mozilla, too. Marite, he says maybe you don't have your address bar showing, but you should be able to go up to whatever the Mozilla version of "view" is, and check off the Address Bar to show it.</p>
<p>"and want a blow by blow of the interview."</p>
<p>I want a blow by blow of the interview. But I know I'll never get it. It was "fine."</p>
<p>D would not allow me to help. She read, researched, and if I gave her a suggestion, (which I tried to do many times) I was told it was her application, not mine. A couple times she asked me to mail something, or make copies, but esentially, the process was hers. She's at Amherst, so I guess she did something right. I hadn't even seen this site at the time, so didn't feel any panic, etc. Didn't know all I know now. If I had back then, I probably would have had a breakdown.</p>
<p>I do hope my D chooses a nice nursing home for me. Heaven knows, if I had invested the money we are spending for her college in a money market account, I could put myself into a VERY nice one when the time comes...</p>