Students’ pressure sometimes comes from their parents. Most parents are well 【B1】___, but some of them aren’t very helpful with the problems their sons and daughters have in 【B2】___to college, and a few of them seem to go out of their way to add to their children’s difficulties.

For one thing, parents are often not 【B3】______ of the kinds of problems their children face. They don’t realize that the 【B4】______ is keener, that the required 【B5】_______ of work are higher, and that their children may not be prepared for the change. 【B6】___to seeing A’s and B’s on high school report cards, they may be upset when their children’s first 【B7】___ college grades are below that level. At their kindest, they may gently 【B8】______ why John or Mary isn’t doing better, whether he or she is trying as hard as he or she should, and so on. 【B9】______________________.

Sometimes parents regard their children as extensions of themselves and 【B10】___________________. In their involvement and identification with their children, they forget that everyone is different and that each person must develop in his or her own way. They forget that their children, 【B11】___________________.

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