Well said.
I think everyone should start with the assumption that the OP is on her son’s side. As parents, we are all on our children’s side. Yes, she said she was pushing him to remain in his current major. There are shades of grey in how that sentiment might have been expressed to her son. This is all hard work, and some aspects come easier to some than others.
Well, this is not always exactly true. All parents think think they are on their children’s side. But some parents unconsciously sabotage their children’s success to “prove” that their children can’t function without them. Not saying this is necessarily the case here, but this does happen more often than you would think.
He’s not a math major, nor an engineer. This was an interest he had in high school. It was not till this summer that he started to doubt himself and also adapted the new attitude that he wanted to get easy B’s.
Folks, I want to thank everyone who had some helpful advice on the board, and again for all the pm’s.
Just a thought, as this will be my last post on this thread…
if you sincerely come on CC to help folks, it would be beneficial to read the posts that the writer wrote,
and not to make snarky, nasty comments.
Many of the PM’s that I received were writing to me privately as they had gotten fed up with some of the unsupportive comments they had received on CC in regards to their own problems.
For myself, when I come on a board for advice, I don’t want to leave aggravated, and yes it’s only about 10% of the comments, but I don’t have the thick skin to deal with it when I am trying to deal with the problem that I came on the board for…
Thanks to everyone else though for the positive comments.
Best of luck to you and your son. And hoping he has a fantastic year.