I make my son pay for his college tuition. If he gets good grades each semester, I pay him back.

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My mom was the first on either side of my family to go to college. She went back in her 40s, getting her master's degree at a college an hour away from our home while raising three children. Growing up, she was expected to go to secretarial school, but education was important to her, so my mom worked hard and got her degree.