# At some point a parent has to allow their son/daughter to make their own
# decisions. Those decisions may be either for the better or for the worse. One
# can only hope that you as a parent have instilled in them the ability to
# listen
#  to those that care about them and to consider what advice they are  given. A
# an adult the actual decision needs to be theirs. I realize that this isn't th
# advise that you were wanting to hear. I would submit that what is important i
# that they know and believe that regardless of their decision that you as a
# parent will be there for them if needed. Children seem to learn best by doing
# Regardless of the outcome of that doing process.
 
I suspect that you are right, it is what I've been thinking, but it is
hard as hell to get out of this protective mode I've been in for a very
long time.  Thanks.


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