I know what you may be thinking. You’re thinking she is going to say that the greatest gift her mother ever gave her was love or nurturing.

Or compassion, kindness, forgiveness, mercy, patience.

While all of this is true, I’m focusing on the greatest monetary related gift.

The greatest gift my mother ever gave me was a student loan.

The number one reason parents hire me to tutor their high school student is because they are burned out!

Burned out from getting up before dawn, working all day at a difficult and tiring job, just to come home to spend hours and hours on high school homework that their student wasn’t understanding. Then start the whole process over again the next day.

I have personally worked with parents that would stay up until 2am every night, in order to finish assignments. Very tiring!

These parents were so burned out from helping with homework, double checking assignments, editing essays, and planning projects, that they eventually found it easiest to just do the work for them.

GASP!!