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<blockquote data-quote="welcometowitsend" data-source="post: 574482" data-attributes="member: 14356"><p>Suzir - I don't think there is anything wrong with how you feel. I think that part of our children being happy and fulfilled is that they are productive and that they have found something they love to do and are pursuing it. So, I think you want what others here want for their children you are just seeing it a little differently. </p><p></p><p>I stated that all I want for my kids is for them to be happy, healthy, in a loving family and financially stable. That certainly doesn't involve welfare and odd jobs as far as I'm concerned - although that certainly seems to be the path my difficult child is headed down right now. </p><p></p><p>I guess we just have to wait and see which path they end up on and whether they will stay on that path. And love them through it at the same time. I'm trying to learn to accept difficult child's choices as his own. Especially the ones that only affect him in the present and/or in the future. As hard as that is we have no control over those choices. We can tell them we are concerned and give them our thoughts or advice and then step back and let them decide what they are going to do. So hard, but we still love them regardless.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="welcometowitsend, post: 574482, member: 14356"] Suzir - I don't think there is anything wrong with how you feel. I think that part of our children being happy and fulfilled is that they are productive and that they have found something they love to do and are pursuing it. So, I think you want what others here want for their children you are just seeing it a little differently. I stated that all I want for my kids is for them to be happy, healthy, in a loving family and financially stable. That certainly doesn't involve welfare and odd jobs as far as I'm concerned - although that certainly seems to be the path my difficult child is headed down right now. I guess we just have to wait and see which path they end up on and whether they will stay on that path. And love them through it at the same time. I'm trying to learn to accept difficult child's choices as his own. Especially the ones that only affect him in the present and/or in the future. As hard as that is we have no control over those choices. We can tell them we are concerned and give them our thoughts or advice and then step back and let them decide what they are going to do. So hard, but we still love them regardless. [/QUOTE]
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