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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 708391" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>This is very wise, I think.</p><p></p><p>We think we are funding an end "a college degree," a "profession" or a "trade." What we are really doing is supporting exploration and experience, so that they develop in such a way that they mature and evolve in judgement and wisdom in their lives.</p><p></p><p>I am not sanctioning or forgiving "waste," self-destruction or parental abuse.</p><p></p><p>If I look at things this way there is acceptance and calm that comes from the realization that college and conformity to proscribed conventional rules and roles is only one way to live a life.</p><p></p><p>Of course "I know this" but do I accept it? Not usually. I fight choices and behaviors of my son that do not conform to my own and general societal ways of seeing how life should be. And doing so I cause myself and my child suffering.</p><p></p><p>I "want" for him, and focus on him neglecting my own "wants." In so doing I fall into misery and I create estrangement from him and myself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 708391, member: 18958"] This is very wise, I think. We think we are funding an end "a college degree," a "profession" or a "trade." What we are really doing is supporting exploration and experience, so that they develop in such a way that they mature and evolve in judgement and wisdom in their lives. I am not sanctioning or forgiving "waste," self-destruction or parental abuse. If I look at things this way there is acceptance and calm that comes from the realization that college and conformity to proscribed conventional rules and roles is only one way to live a life. Of course "I know this" but do I accept it? Not usually. I fight choices and behaviors of my son that do not conform to my own and general societal ways of seeing how life should be. And doing so I cause myself and my child suffering. I "want" for him, and focus on him neglecting my own "wants." In so doing I fall into misery and I create estrangement from him and myself. [/QUOTE]
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