Washington Post: Want to help kids succeed in college? Let them take a gap year
‘”Parents have been chauffeurs and secretaries for their kids all their lives, so kids tend to have a rough adjustment period when they head off to college,’ he says. ‘But taking a gap year is the antidote to helicopter parenting.'”
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