waltwilliam12 wrote:
A lot of the posts here read like posts from parents who come here to ask how they should handle situations with their children (especially verbal teenagers) rather than asking those children how they would like things handled. They know themselves better than anyone here would.
I think the OP's point is that her son will not talk about it: it can be inferred from that that he won't answer questions. Just because someone is verbal does not mean they have good communication skills.
At any rate: I'm a reasonably functional adult, and it took me 5 tries to get my driver's license: the written test was easy, doing all the motor coordination and controlling for all the stimuli was really, really difficult for me.
DW is right: having lived it, it was very challenging to go to college with the maturity of a tween. I at least had a college chosen for me, but I wound up choosing a major by falling into it more than by choice; I didn't have a sense of direction. Anything I got out of college happened serendipitously.
It would have helped a lot if someone had been willing to walk me through my choices, and had gone over what I was good at and how to arrange a major to play to my strengths.
02 Jul 2015, 6:23 pm
