Post by aggie62 on Oct 29, 2009 19:33:15 GMT -5
PRELIMINARY: I agree with a lot of Thrilla is saying because I think a parent has to encourage and help their children to make decisions (good decisions). Each of my kids knew that one of the gifts they were going to receive for their 12th birthday was the ability and requirement to make their own decisions. This helped them to learn how to make good decisions and it helped us, their parents, to see how good their decision-making skills were. By the way, our kids made some poor decisions and suffered from them but my wife and I never allowed them to fail. All my kids are now grown, college graduates and are doing well.
Now to CJ Penny, I would have allowed him to go to Southeastern Illinois Junior College in Harrisburg, Ill, his first choice, and would allow him to enrolled at either Kentucky State or Georgetown College but not to enrolled at Kentucky State and then go to Georgetown College. IMO, that's how a parent would stop their child from failing. With his current plan, I see no benefit in enrolling in Kentucky State for one semester. That's the same as sitting out of college for a year and remember the first mission of college is education and to set out a year hampers that objective. Remember the kid who went to Ohio State (don't remember his name) and had a great freshman season as a running back, tried out for the NFL and didn't make it. For him, things went down hill from there and he's now in jail. That's a failure that could have and should have been prevented.
In my view, we must allow our kids to make poor decisions but we shouldn't allow them to fail. JUST A THOUGHT............
Now to CJ Penny, I would have allowed him to go to Southeastern Illinois Junior College in Harrisburg, Ill, his first choice, and would allow him to enrolled at either Kentucky State or Georgetown College but not to enrolled at Kentucky State and then go to Georgetown College. IMO, that's how a parent would stop their child from failing. With his current plan, I see no benefit in enrolling in Kentucky State for one semester. That's the same as sitting out of college for a year and remember the first mission of college is education and to set out a year hampers that objective. Remember the kid who went to Ohio State (don't remember his name) and had a great freshman season as a running back, tried out for the NFL and didn't make it. For him, things went down hill from there and he's now in jail. That's a failure that could have and should have been prevented.
In my view, we must allow our kids to make poor decisions but we shouldn't allow them to fail. JUST A THOUGHT............