Be prepared for some stressful times when your teenager has to make up their mind whether or not to go to university. Advice, however valuable and however well meant, only has a 50% chance of sinking in when it comes from parents. If that. So patience, in this case, is definitely a virtue. Perhaps you went to university yourself, in which case when you look back on those days, you need to remember that things are very different today - for all sorts of reasons.
Your job is to help your teenager understand that missing out on university could be the biggest mistake of their life - for lots of reasons. And those reasons don't necessarily have to be academic: living at university gives them the chance to experience the real world while still in a safe environment. University gives them the chance to meet all kinds of people they would not otherwise have met. And a university education boosts their chances of finding work, as well as the income it brings in.
This can be confirmed by the study run by PricewaterhouseCoopers that showed that over their lifetime, graduates earned 129,000 more - on average - than those who didn't go to university. To some teenagers, that would be better illustrated in the form of two free Porsches... while to others, that could be a three-bedroom semidetached house in a rural setting.
As long as you don't nag (or at least appear to be nagging), with gentle little reminders of the benefits of a university education will start to sink in until your teenager makes the decision that university is, actually, a pretty good idea. Now's the time to start providing more practical assistance. Their school or college will help, but with budget cuts and policy changes, there's no guarantee how effective that help will be... so once your teenager comes home at the end of the day, it's all hands on deck.
It's not difficult to download page after page after page of university web sites, and the promotional material they send through the post ... the challenge is in finding precisely which of that information you really want. One of the better ways of helping your teenager decide which university to go to is to offer to help them by searching through all that information for one particular topic. (It also gives you the chance to glance at everything else on offer, there.) But when the time comes to choose which university to attend for the next three years, your teenager would like to think that the decision was entirely theirs.
Your job is to help your teenager understand that missing out on university could be the biggest mistake of their life - for lots of reasons. And those reasons don't necessarily have to be academic: living at university gives them the chance to experience the real world while still in a safe environment. University gives them the chance to meet all kinds of people they would not otherwise have met. And a university education boosts their chances of finding work, as well as the income it brings in.
This can be confirmed by the study run by PricewaterhouseCoopers that showed that over their lifetime, graduates earned 129,000 more - on average - than those who didn't go to university. To some teenagers, that would be better illustrated in the form of two free Porsches... while to others, that could be a three-bedroom semidetached house in a rural setting.
As long as you don't nag (or at least appear to be nagging), with gentle little reminders of the benefits of a university education will start to sink in until your teenager makes the decision that university is, actually, a pretty good idea. Now's the time to start providing more practical assistance. Their school or college will help, but with budget cuts and policy changes, there's no guarantee how effective that help will be... so once your teenager comes home at the end of the day, it's all hands on deck.
It's not difficult to download page after page after page of university web sites, and the promotional material they send through the post ... the challenge is in finding precisely which of that information you really want. One of the better ways of helping your teenager decide which university to go to is to offer to help them by searching through all that information for one particular topic. (It also gives you the chance to glance at everything else on offer, there.) But when the time comes to choose which university to attend for the next three years, your teenager would like to think that the decision was entirely theirs.
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