GB when my kids were your daughter's ages I sat them down and explained the "facts of life" to them; giving them three options.

1. Work your butt off now while you’re in Jr. High and High school so you can get scholarships to college and have a "career". This is by far the easiest way but it means they have to make the commitment very early in life.

2. Plan to work your way through college the hard way like I did, either in the military or by working a couple of jobs while going to school. This takes longer, it's harder to do and you often find yourself putting it on hold while taking care of every day life like a family.

3. Or plan on working a job that may very well barely provide for your family.

One son busted his butt and managed to get to West Point. One son is now in the Army and plans to go to school after he gets out. He’d be in school now, but doesn’t want to commit to it not knowing where the Army will send him from one month to the next. And one daughter, due to health reasons had to let go of an excellent scholarship and is now struggling to work her way through college the hard way. Our other daughter will never have the option to do any of these because of multiple handicaps. But not one of the other three ever asked the government to hand them anything so they could get through college and it really chaps me that so many people like this person have this mindset that it's owed to them. Where in the world does that come from?