His Daughter Is Unsure About What She Wants To Study In University, So He Revised His Terms For Her College Fund
This forty-two-year-old dad has a daughter who is graduating with the class of 2022. And, over the years, he has set aside a nice college fund for her that is now worth enough to cover the average cost of a four-year university.
But, she has been pretty indecisive about what she wants to study after high school– and he totally gets that feeling.
“I understand. It’s a wildly young age to completely know what you want to do for the rest of your life,” he said.
So, when his daughter said she wanted to take a gap year before college to mull over her options, he was honestly all for it.
Something apparently switched in her mind, though, because just yesterday, she approached him with a new plan. Next semester, she wants to go to college.
And he was fully supportive at first but became a bit concerned when he started asking her standard questions– such as what she wanted to study and where she wanted to go– and she had no idea.
In turn, he came up with an alternative plan. If she is still unsure about her decision, she should consider completing her general education requirements at a local community college in order to save money and not waste time.
“Also, I will give her any money not used in her college fund after she graduates for a down payment or for some ‘getting started’ money depending on how much is left over,” he noted.
But, his daughter was not really into the idea of attending community college and instead insisted on getting the four-year university experience.
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He was hesitant about this, though, and remembered how much money he had wasted for the same reason.
“I was unsure of what I wanted to do when I went to a four-year and ended up taking classes I did not need and spent time making up classes that I should have been taking years before. I don’t want her to be in that same situation,” he recalled.
So, he made a tough call and decided that if she wanted to go to a four-year university, that would be fine. However, he told his daughter that he would not be paying for it.
On the other hand, if she is able to decide what she wants to study, he will gladly pay for it. Plus, if she just wanted some more time to think everything over, that was totally okay with him, too.
He is actually in no rush to push her out of the nest and underscored that the college fund money is not going anywhere.
Nonetheless, his daughter became really upset with these options. She kept begging for him to pay for a university even though she did not have a plan, but he did not cave.
Instead, he just reassured her that he loved her and ended the conversation there. His wife also agrees with him but is a bit more sympathetic to his daughter’s hopes of attending a big university with other young adults her age.
So now, he is unsure if basically making her college fund come with a “terms and conditions” clause was the wrong thing to do.
Do you think that his options are reasonable? Would you do the same thing as a parent? Would you do the same thing as a parent?
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