This is a busy registration season for the Spring semester at The University of Tampa. Classes are packed to the gills with students, and there is a mad rush from students to get an ‘ideal’ schedule of classes.
A disturbing trend is the number of calls I am getting from Mom’s and Dad’s seeking help to override their sons and daughters into classes. Using Mom and Dad to pull strings – really? I have simple advice for both groups.
To the parents: time to cut off the apron strings (if not the purse strings) and allow your 20+ year old ‘children’ to fend for themselves, and fight their own battles. To the students: GROW UP. Mom and Dad can’t be the fall back when things don’t go your way.
The millennial generation has a sense of entitlement and a penchant for having things ‘their way’. The work place is a lot tougher than the comfort of the home environment and coddling our youth is the wrong way to developing productive members of society.
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