The Power of Government Grants and Scholarships

smileAs a parent of two grown children government grants and scholarships literally saved my family from financial ruin. As many parents know the costs of providing a continued education to your children without financial aid for college is enormous. If you have more than one little darling, like I do, it can be clobbering.

We all love our children dearly, and want the best possible for them, but sometimes you’ve got to face it. Your kid may just not be college material! Now before you rake me over the coals, hear me out. I do believe that every person deserves a shot at an education. The question is, how many?

I’m going to tell you from experience how to use college grants and scholarships to send your  “not so studious” or “spontaneous” family members an education without gambling your life away on the risk that they, on a whim, take their tuition funds to drop out and go pack packing through the South of France. Or miss an entire semester because they have that once in a lifetime opportunity to roadie for Aerosmith. Arrrgggh! Do you know that I have never been to the south of France? Why? SO I COULD SEND THAT LITTLE JERK TO COLLEGE!

But I financed a trip there! And the other one, ugh! I love Aerosmith too you know, but this crappy tour T-shirt doesn’t match the $10,000 your father dropped for the courses you skipped out on! Damn these kids today! Sorry, I digress……

But yes, I’ve raised an adventurous pair of explorers. Both very bright and eager to learn and succeed. I am indeed very proud of each. But they are still a couple of spontaneous reckless animals! Until I discovered government grants and scholarships I was paying over and over again for THE SAME CLASSES because “Junior” and “Princess” were trying to live up to the characters they so adored in all those ridiculous college comedy movies they watched while they were in high school! Ugh! If only I’d reset those parental controls!

Once I enforced the “three strikes, you’re OUT” rule they fell into line. I paid for each of their tuition TWICE! I know that’s once, too many but I’ve always believed in giving everyone a second chance for every mistake. When they each screwed up the second time (sigh), my husband and I firmly let them know that the last chance for them, was to follow each of these rules;

  1. Find every type of government grant, NO CO SIGNER student loan, or scholarship (believe it or not, even THEY qualified for scholarships), that they could get their hands on.
  2. Continue, WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A PAUSE, with their education.
  3. WITHOUT A PENNY FROM US! No tuition, no books, no dorms, no credit cards, NO NOTHING!

All we gave them was a roof over their heads and food, and let them know that if they broke ANY of these rules EVEN ONCE, they’d be out on their respective wreck loose asses! Thanks to a firm and loving parental reality check, and the help of government student grants, scholarships and NO COSIGNER student loans, we are the proud parents of a music teacher and a professor of Historical French architecture.

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