My kids will be paying for their own college. I went to 3 different schools and had mom and dad pay the bills for the 1st 2. Then I grew up, got married and went to art school on my own dime and made straight A's and was on deans list numerous times. Amazing what you can do when you are paying the bill ;D Hope they can find jobs when they graduate //OLDSKOOL//
ya, well i made a promise to my daughter, who is in her JR year of nursing, she has made nothing but A's starting in 8th grade. . she gets about 1/2 of her school paid for cause of her grades, i foot the bill for the other, she also works 2 jobs and will be working at the hospital in OK that she is doing her clinicals in, so.. i dont feel bad about helping her out.. its the slug son, who is barely passing , in art , for some reason going to class has a direct affect on your grades, he just figured this out. anyway, this will be the last semister i give him any $$ at least im batting 500 .
My dad kicked me out of the house at 18 , when i came home from my graduation party, my room was packed, in boxes, and lucky i had a tennis scholership that helped me , but he said, come visit for holidays, but. my room was now. his new Man-cave.. i accecpted it.. paid my way, tennis only paid for 1/2 the school, i had to work and also got a few loans.. but i made it out in 4 years and 1 semister cause my advisor was an idiot.. .. i wanted to make sure my kids did not have to have it as hard as i did, ... i missed many meals and did with out alot cause i had no $$.
but , you make a great point. they do tend to understand it much much better when its their DIME. hopefully the son will get that, but my daughter so far is making the grades, and saving her $$.. so
i dont want her to worry about the cost, just study and get a job.... hoepfully what she has saved will allow her to start out life after school with more stuff than I did...