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All Grown Up andStill in Tow

Sherri Beattie

1 My heart went out to him. In fact, I felt so uncomfortable thatI looked away. How humiliating to be in a university registrar’soffice with your father taking charge.

2 As I stood in line, waiting for my own question to beanswered, I reflected on how times have changed.

3 I am as old as, if not older than, most faculty members.

4 Nonetheless, I do remember what it was like to be an 18-year-old undergraduate. The first-year experience is exciting,liberating and terrifying, all combined to help us grow intoadulthood. That is, if our parents don’t come with us.

5 The young man at the counter had some sort of registrationproblem. It is inevitable in the first year. The woman behind thecounter clearly felt, as I did, embarrassed for this young man,who was accompanied by his no doubt well-intentioned, butmisguided, father.

6 Dad did the talking while his son struggled to lift his eyesand look at the woman trying to help them. I thought aboutthose small bits of self-confidence that were so painstakinglybuilt in boyhood, and how they were being crushed at thecounter. What I saw was a student who looked perfectly able toask a few questions and get the information he needed.

7 I grew very angry. “Oh, grow up, go home,” I wanted toshout at Dad from my place in the line.

8 I was equally shocked as I sat in a seminar for 500 first-yearteaching assistants and was told what to do when Mom and/or Dad shows up in your office complaining about the marksor assignments that you have given to their children. It is a veryreal issue in universities these

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days.

9 Baby-boomer parents seem to struggle with two things:saying no and letting go. The teaching assistants massedtogether in the theatre were advised to send unhappy parentsdirectly to professors. I sat in disbelief, but yes, it happens.

10 Mom and Dad, your children are no longer children.Rather, they are eagerly trying to be adults. So whatever areyou doing in line with them at the registrar’s office?

11 Twenty years ago, when I first entered university, parentsdid not follow their children all the way there. My parentsdropped me at the front door of St. Hilda’s College at theUniversity of Toronto and drove five hours back home.

12 I was not ready, prepared or clearly aware about whatwould happen over the course of the next four years, but Imuddled through. From professors and teaching assistants toregistrars and student-loan officers, I learned to find my waythrough the perils and pleasures of university life. Naturally, Imade mistakes, but then I still do.

13 Were my parents not caring or uninterested? Not at all.What they were not was university-educated baby-boomers whobelieve all events must be designed and controlled and thateverything I did was a direct reflection on them.

14 My parents came from another generation. They never setfoot in a university. They were pleased, and supportive, when Idecided to attend but they considered me an adult at 18.

15 The incident I saw in the registrar’s office was not anunusual sight. I wish it were. Rather, about six people behindme in line, I discovered another parent-child grouping. This timea son was pleading with his mother to stay put while he went tothe counter and dealt with the problem himself. They were stillnegotiating when I left.

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16 Too many baby-boomer parents are overly concerned withsuccess. They just don’t want to let go.

17 When I tell my mother that I have won a scholarship andwill undertake graduate research in Europe this fall she says,“That’s nice, dear.”

18 My mother would argue that my success is my own. I wouldargue that my success is a result of being allowed the freedomto make mistakes and find my own way.

19 To parent s whose children are at tending first-yearuniversity, just remember they have all grown up now. It is timefor you to do the same.

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只好仍跟随着父母的成年孩子

谢丽·比蒂

1 我十分同情这位男孩。事实上，我感到非常不安，所以避开不看。想象一下一个身处大

学注册处的年轻人，仍有父亲陪伴左右包办事务是多么令人蒙羞。

2 当我排着队等待咨询的时候，我不由得感叹时代的变迁。

3 我和大部分老师相比，如果不比他们年长的话，至少也是和他们一样的年纪了。

4 尽管如此，我仍记得当年我还是个18岁本科生时的感受。大学第一年的经历曾是那样

激动人心，无拘无束，甚至惊心动魄。各种体验交织在一起，使我们真正长大成人。当然，

这建立在我们的父母放手的前提之下。

5 那位在办事台边的年轻人像是遇到注册方面的问题，这在第一年入学时是难以避免的。台子后面的女职员显然像我一样，为眼前这位仍由父亲陪同的年轻男孩感到尴尬。毫无疑问，这位父亲想要助儿子一臂之力的用心是好的，但却误入了歧途。

6 全部对话由父亲包办，而他的儿子只能挣扎着抬起眼睛看着这位帮助他们的女职员。我

想到了男孩少年时代辛苦建立起来的那点自信心，就这样在台子前被砸得粉碎。而我看到

的分明是一位完全有能力提问并且得到他所需信息的学生。

7 我感到很愤怒，想从我排队的地方向那位父亲大喊：“喂，别不懂事啦，回家吧！”

8 令我感到同样震惊的是，我参加了一个为500名一年级助教开设的研讨会，会上被告知

当家长来到你的办公室抱怨你给孩子的分数低或者作业多的时候你该如何应付。这在当今

大学里已成为一个非常现实的问题。

9 婴儿潮时期出生的家长都在为两件事情纠结：对孩子说不以及如何放手。聚集在讲堂里

的助教们被告知让不高兴的家长们直接去找教授。我感到难以置信，但的确，这些都是真

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