Many students may feel stressed because of their parents. Most parents have good intentions, but some of them aren’t very 61 (help) with the problems their sons and daughters have in 62 (adjust) 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 aware 63 the kinds of problems their children face. They don’t realize that the 64 (compete) is stronger, that the required standards of work are 65 (high), and that their children may not be prepared for 66 change. They may be upset by their children’s poor grades. At their kindest, they may 67 (gentle) ask why John or Mary isn’t doing better, whether he or she is trying as hard as he or she should, and so on. At their worst, they may threaten 68 ( take) their children out of college or cut off living expenses.
Sometimes parents think it right and natural that they determine 69 their children do with their lives. They forget that everyone is 70 (difference) and that each person must develop in his or her own way.