Reading the blog post of a high achiever young woman I like to follow who wrote about how difficult her freshman year has been, I feel guilty about my high expectations of my own children from the start of college. I confess that these feelings arise only when we hear it from a third party, especially a third party we merit very clever but when my children tell me about how hard or difficult it is, I take it with a pinch of salt? Oh dear. But I know you work very hard and you make us proud. Take care and love you.