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Wasted opportunity due to weed use
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<blockquote data-quote="pigless in VA" data-source="post: 709455" data-attributes="member: 11832"><p>Welcome, Feelingbroken. My son is 18 and is also smoking weed. I don't think he realizes how much is has zapped his motivation. He is poised to go to college in the fall, but I predict he will do terribly in his classes. In that event, we will end his educational support and force him to support himself. I sincerely hope he proves me wrong. </p><p></p><p>SWOT, I did buy Ferb a car when he was 16 in the hope that he would be motivated to learn to drive. It was an old Saturn. He didn't think it was good enough for him, and refused to take the test in order to get his learner's permit. After 6 months, I sold the car and told him that he'd need to buy his own car. It is 2 years later and he still doesn't have a driver's license. It doesn't seem to be important to him. He walks to work and to school.</p><p></p><p>I don't look at it as I have failed him as a mother. I look at it as he is failing himself. It's his life, and he is making some bad decisions. He's young and there is room for him to learn from his mistakes. It would be great if we could take all the lessons that we have learned and drop them into our children's brains. Sadly, that isn't the way it works. They have to head off into the world and make their own decisions. My son has never listened to my advice. Even as a young child. I'm trying to come to peace with the fact that his life path is going to be really rocky and messy. Maybe eventually he will get himself together.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigless in VA, post: 709455, member: 11832"] Welcome, Feelingbroken. My son is 18 and is also smoking weed. I don't think he realizes how much is has zapped his motivation. He is poised to go to college in the fall, but I predict he will do terribly in his classes. In that event, we will end his educational support and force him to support himself. I sincerely hope he proves me wrong. SWOT, I did buy Ferb a car when he was 16 in the hope that he would be motivated to learn to drive. It was an old Saturn. He didn't think it was good enough for him, and refused to take the test in order to get his learner's permit. After 6 months, I sold the car and told him that he'd need to buy his own car. It is 2 years later and he still doesn't have a driver's license. It doesn't seem to be important to him. He walks to work and to school. I don't look at it as I have failed him as a mother. I look at it as he is failing himself. It's his life, and he is making some bad decisions. He's young and there is room for him to learn from his mistakes. It would be great if we could take all the lessons that we have learned and drop them into our children's brains. Sadly, that isn't the way it works. They have to head off into the world and make their own decisions. My son has never listened to my advice. Even as a young child. I'm trying to come to peace with the fact that his life path is going to be really rocky and messy. Maybe eventually he will get himself together. [/QUOTE]
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