Unhealthy Expectations
So, we've all heard about a certain college admissions scam. The one where parents bribed and lied and actually made up fake profiles to get their kids into desirable colleges. Pretty gross, right? And the worst part is not that my image of Lori Loughlin (Aunt Becky!) has forever been tarnished, but rather how she has hurt her daughters. Apparently, her daughters didn't even want to go to college (oh the irony), but it was something that their parents wanted desperately. If the news is to be believed, their parents wanted so badly for them to have that "college experience" that they were apparently willing to risk their careers, not to mention jail time. The expectations they had for them (in this case, anyway) were so far from what the daughters wanted for themselves. Now, I don't know this family, so I'm playing arm-chair psychologist here. But it seems to me that the parents let their expectations blind them to reality. Maybe it was too hard for th
