My daughter wants to drop out and move to New York: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.
Dear Care and Feeding, My daughter, Olivia, is 16 and has a cousin, Lila, also 16, with whom she’s always been close despite living in different states. Lila was able to take a lot of extra classes while distance- learning and is graduating from high school this June; she is moving this summer to New York for college. Olivia hasn’t been doing well at all with distance learning, even though I hired an in-person tutor for her—she failed three classes last semester and might not graduate on time next year. Advertisement Olivia has now decided, since she thinks she’s a failure at school, ...