I'm with ya. I read the first question and refused to go further.
'Can my son choose his own degree?'
Reply: "Seriously? No Maam, we've already determined Aubrey will be tops in his class in underwater basket-weaving, so we've enrolled him the College of Arts and Sciences with his Major being Creative Arts."
My junior year in HS, my Mom told me that I needed to decide what I was going to do after graduating HS - either go to college or get a job. As she said she was going to move to KC after I graduated HS and that I was not going with her (I'm the youngest of 4 and she was a single parent since I was 4 years old, so I don't blame her one bit). We grew up in rural Illinois, so going to college wasn't what everyone did. Well, I chose college, changed my major after my first year from computer science to geology, and 10 years later I had a MS degree in geology from UF. I never once discussed any of these decisions with my Mom - I
told her what I was going to do. I appreciated that my Mom let me be my own man about it all.