Students' pressure sometimes comes from their parents. Most parents are well {{U}}(36) {{/U}}, but some of them aren't very helpful with the problems their sons and daughters have in {{U}}(37) {{/U}} to college, and a few of them seem to go out of their way to add to their children's difficulties.
For one thing, parents are often not {{U}}(38) {{/U}}of the kinds of problems their children face. They don't realize that the {{U}}(39) {{/U}}is keener, that the required {{U}}(40) {{/U}}of work are higher, and that their children may not be prepared for the change.{{U}} (41) {{/U}}to seeing A's and B's on high school report cards, they may be upset when their children's first {{U}}(42) {{/U}}college grades are below that level At their kindest, they may gently {{U}}(43) {{/U}}why John or Mary isn't doing better, whether he or she is trying as hard as he or she should, and so on.{{U}} (44) {{/U}}.
Sometimes parents regard their children as extensions of themselves and {{U}}(45) {{/U}}. In their involvement and identification with their children, they forget that everyone is different and that each person must develop in his or her own way. They forget that their children,{{U}} (46) {{/U}}.