Parent or Guardian Interview



Parent or Guardian Interview Name: ____________

150 Point Interview/Essay Date: _____________

Please TYPE a summary of what you discuss with your parents under the appropriate question sections below.

Question One: Is being an adult easier, the same or harder than you imagined it would be when you where a teenager?

a) What is it about being an adult that is harder than you thought it would be and why?

b) What is it about being an adult that is easier than you thought it would be and why?

Questions Two: What would you like your teenager to know you do or try and emphasis as a parent/guardian to try and help your child have an easier or more fulfilling life than you have had or to help them have a life that is just as easy or fulfilling as you’ve had?

Question Three: After reading the first article, “The Imperiled Promise of College”, ask your parents the following interview questions:

a) Do your parents agree with the statement about zoology, art history and the humanities in the middle of this article or do they disagree? Why or why not?

b) What do your parents think about the choice of major you are thinking about choosing in college? If you haven’t chosen decided on a major yet, what major or majors would your parents recommend that you pursue if they could make the choice for you?

Question Four: After reading the article, “Half of Young Professionals Value Facebook Access, Smartphone Options Salary: Report”, ask your parents the following interview questions:

a) What do your parents think of a young adult that would take a lower salary so that they can spend more time on their Facebook page?

b) About how much money per month do your parents think it would take you to live comfortably on your own as a single adult? What about to live comfortably as a married adult with children?

c) What was it like for your parents when they were young adults? What where some of the first jobs they worked when they graduated from high school or college?

d) Ask them to describe some of the unpleasant things they had to put up with to get to where they are today? Or was it mostly fairly easy for them to get to where they are today?

e) Do they think it will be easier or harder for you to achieve what they’ve achieved? And the only question for you as a student in this section: “Do you want to achieve what they have achieved or do you have something different in mind?” If so, what do they think of your type of “different”?

Question Five: After reading the last article “What the Fate of One 2011 Class Says About the Job Market,” especially some of the comments at the end of the article answer the following question with the help of your parents: “What five practical things can you do over the next five or six years that will keep you from ending up in some of the more difficult circumstances described in this article?” Also, with your parents help, list two practical things you can change about the way you go about high school right now to give yourself a better chance at future success.

Finally, don’t forget to summarize your thoughts here in a one page, single-spaced essay, to be handed in with this completed sheet.

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