One day, at the registrar’s office of a college, I noticed how parents are behaving with their college-age children nowadays. Obviously students are young_______and can handle registration by__________, but their parents completely_______the situation. In a seminar for teaching assistants, I was surprised to hear that parents often go to their office to________about marks and assignments their children have got. What I have seen and heard has left me feeling_____________. Unlike my parents allowing me to make_________in my life, parents of today’s college students seem never to give their children a chance to take________.