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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 656619" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>Both my kids left home, one way or another, all the time. (Which means someone let them come back, all the time, right? Darn that D H.) Our daughter did graduate, but not with her class. I was so disappointed at the time. Our son zipped through GED testing in like, one minute, and proceeded not to go to college. You know, where you pay for the classes in a college so definitely not of your choosing and hear ten thousand justifications for why every one of those teachers is not bright enough to teach your son anything. </p><p></p><p>So you only do it one more semester.</p><p></p><p>And then, keep holding his education over his head as the reason he is still living at home again at 26.</p><p></p><p>It seems so strange now, looking back on it. But at the time, education was all I could see for them. And I was willing to do pretty much anything to see that they got it.</p><p></p><p>So I did do pretty much anything.</p><p></p><p>***</p><p></p><p>So, because our experience has been what it is, I know SWOT is correct about how to handle this. Neither of our kids stopped desperately needing enormous (to us) amounts of money until we stopped giving it. All at once, they began to be able to cope with the most amazing consequences without either our money <em>or our advice.</em></p><p></p><p>Huh.</p><p></p><p>Can send the daughter to live with her father?</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 656619, member: 17461"] Both my kids left home, one way or another, all the time. (Which means someone let them come back, all the time, right? Darn that D H.) Our daughter did graduate, but not with her class. I was so disappointed at the time. Our son zipped through GED testing in like, one minute, and proceeded not to go to college. You know, where you pay for the classes in a college so definitely not of your choosing and hear ten thousand justifications for why every one of those teachers is not bright enough to teach your son anything. So you only do it one more semester. And then, keep holding his education over his head as the reason he is still living at home again at 26. It seems so strange now, looking back on it. But at the time, education was all I could see for them. And I was willing to do pretty much anything to see that they got it. So I did do pretty much anything. *** So, because our experience has been what it is, I know SWOT is correct about how to handle this. Neither of our kids stopped desperately needing enormous (to us) amounts of money until we stopped giving it. All at once, they began to be able to cope with the most amazing consequences without either our money [I]or our advice.[/I] Huh. Can send the daughter to live with her father? Cedar [/QUOTE]
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