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« Reply #75 on: November 17, 2009, 06:12:53 PM » |
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OP: forgive me, but your posts read a bit like "How dare he have ambitions!"
Try being a little supportive. Stop selling your son short.
You are new to the fora, but many people know the history. It's not that I don't want him to have ambition--indeed I do, but he quit school when he was 15 and has been known to scam me, and I hope going back isn't a scam. I know it sounds cycnical, but there you have it. I am, however, being very supportive. If you don't pay for anything in his life, you can't get scammed. He's, what, 20, 21? He's in another state? He can live his life and make his decision all on his own without you bankrolling anything. Wish him luck and send him on his way. That's true, and if he screws up this semester, he's on his own. But if he wants to get an education, I will certainly help him. That's the way we do it in my family. He just turned 20 |
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« Reply #76 on: November 17, 2009, 06:36:19 PM » |
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OP: forgive me, but your posts read a bit like "How dare he have ambitions!"
Try being a little supportive. Stop selling your son short.
You are new to the fora, but many people know the history. It's not that I don't want him to have ambition--indeed I do, but he quit school when he was 15 and has been known to scam me, and I hope going back isn't a scam. I know it sounds cycnical, but there you have it. I am, however, being very supportive. If you don't pay for anything in his life, you can't get scammed. He's, what, 20, 21? He's in another state? He can live his life and make his decision all on his own without you bankrolling anything. Wish him luck and send him on his way. That's true, and if he screws up this semester, he's on his own. But if he wants to get an education, I will certainly help him. That's the way we do it in my family. He just turned 20 Pry, this sounds reasonable. A semester is long enough to determine whether Prylet is serious about getting an education., |
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« Reply #77 on: November 17, 2009, 06:55:21 PM » |
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OP: forgive me, but your posts read a bit like "How dare he have ambitions!"
Try being a little supportive. Stop selling your son short.
You are new to the fora, but many people know the history. It's not that I don't want him to have ambition--indeed I do, but he quit school when he was 15 and has been known to scam me, and I hope going back isn't a scam. I know it sounds cycnical, but there you have it. I am, however, being very supportive. If you don't pay for anything in his life, you can't get scammed. He's, what, 20, 21? He's in another state? He can live his life and make his decision all on his own without you bankrolling anything. Wish him luck and send him on his way. That's true, and if he screws up this semester, he's on his own. But if he wants to get an education, I will certainly help him. That's the way we do it in my family. He just turned 20 Pry, this sounds reasonable. A semester is long enough to determine whether Prylet is serious about getting an education., He has a lot fewer distractions in VA, too. |
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« Reply #78 on: November 17, 2009, 09:20:19 PM » |
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OP: forgive me, but your posts read a bit like "How dare he have ambitions!"
Try being a little supportive. Stop selling your son short.
You are new to the fora, but many people know the history. It's not that I don't want him to have ambition--indeed I do, but he quit school when he was 15 and has been known to scam me, and I hope going back isn't a scam. I know it sounds cycnical, but there you have it. I am, however, being very supportive. If you don't pay for anything in his life, you can't get scammed. He's, what, 20, 21? He's in another state? He can live his life and make his decision all on his own without you bankrolling anything. Wish him luck and send him on his way. That's true, and if he screws up this semester, he's on his own. But if he wants to get an education, I will certainly help him. That's the way we do it in my family. He just turned 20 Nice to have parents to fund one's education. : ) Seriously, I mean it. I would love to have had someone else pay my tuition; it would have kept me from the rather irritating student loans I'll be paying off for the rest of my life. |
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« Reply #79 on: November 17, 2009, 09:56:53 PM » |
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pry, if he's got a history of scamming you and you still want to help him, tell him this is it. Last chance. After that, he's on his own. My brother pulled the same crap with my father repeatedly in some inventive ways, and after a while my dad just had to let him go. He straightened himself out eventually with the help of a little hippie chick who was a lot tougher than she looked.
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« Reply #80 on: November 17, 2009, 11:53:36 PM » |
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Of course, anyone who has, or has raised a 20/21 year old son knows that they still may need some help along the way. Sometimes it makes a mother feel good to pay for education. It can be a real pleasure.
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« Reply #81 on: November 18, 2009, 04:35:01 AM » |
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No offense Pry, but you can do a LOT more with a degree in Physics than with a degree in English.
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You think? |
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