What to do if Your Academically Challenged Child Wants to go to College

Your son has never done very well in school. Your son has never thought about or wanted to go to college. Your son finds out that his friends are going to college and staying in a dorm room. Your son now decides that he wants to go to college because his friends are going and he's not. You wonder if your child is going to college simply to be with his friends and stay away from you. You want your child to get an education but you don't want your child to run around unattended a couple of hours away from home. You are stuck between a rock and a hard place and there's a time limit involved.

First you need to find out if your child can get accepted to this college. Perhaps your child needs a certain grade point average in order to get into this school. If your child will not be accepted, there's no reason to stress out about this at this point. You will first want to know if your child gets accepted to go to the college. You will then want to find out what the college is like and what the college is known for. Ask your child what type of classes they are planning on taking and what they want to major in. Don't let your child take all the same classes that his or her friends are taking simply because they are easy classes and they want to hang out with their friends.

I've been in classes with my friends and those were the classes I did the worst in. This is because my friends would never let me concentrate. They would constantly talk to me when I was trying to listen to the teacher. Then my teacher would get upset with me because he or she thought that I was disrupting class. It's hard to tell your friend to be quiet and not have them take that personally. It's better to stay away from classes that your friends are in, especially when you can decide where you are going to sit in class. Plus, some classes will not count for college credits unless you get a certain grade point average. A certain class might not count for anything simply because you got a c- instead of a c+.