Healthy young man and a woman hiking and enjoying the view from the top of King Creek Ridge, Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada on a bright sunny day. Back packing in the Canadian Rockies.

I work at an Ivy League school. My son wants to apply elsewhere.

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My son has benefited far more from his own growing sense of independence than any attempts I made to cultivate his future success.

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