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Parenting

HopeHoops

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2. Patience. It is his life and he'll probably learn more on a slower track.

Reply to mahina (Original post)

Tue Jan 10, 2012, 10:52 AM

Jan 2012

Most people I know with "right out of high school" college degrees don't remember a damn thing they learned in college. The objective is an education, not a foot race.

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Anybody have a son or daughter who took forever and ever in college? [View all] mahina Jan 2012 OP

It took me two years to get my last half credit. First of all I took a math class I had already applegrove Jan 2012 #1

Patience. It is his life and he'll probably learn more on a slower track. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #2

Well there is an upside that I had not considered, mahina Jan 2012 #3

My son has also been taking the slow route, pnwmom Apr 2012 #4

I have one that hasn't even started... Ruby Reason Jun 2012 #5