Kathy,

Yep time to rip off the training wheells and let go the back of the seat.
Watch out for that . . crash . . tree.

Brad






Kathy Du Bois wrote:
>Brad,
>I've never really pushed the college route with chris either, but I know
>that he can do better academicly and I had  wanted him to do that for
>himself, not for scholarships or anything.  Chris's lack of effort says
>more about his unwillingness to push himself than his lack of ability to
>achieve.  Chris is a scrapper too.  He'll find a way to make it somehow.
>He dabbles with thoughts of going into the army or guard.  His latest
>though is to become a robotics engineer, so who knows.  As I had said
>before and you affirmed in your last post, it's the relationship that's
>the thing.  At least while we are still in his life, we can still have
>influance  If I just push to have him do things my way I'll just lose
>him.  .
>After all, growing up is learning how to learn from your mistakes and
>growing up for parents is learning to back off and let them make them,
>mistakes that is.
>Kathy
>
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