XPost: alt.education, alt.true-crime, pdx.general   
   XPost: or.politics   
   From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   Don Homuth  wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:34:25 GMT, Lobby Dosser   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>Don Homuth  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:19:52 GMT, Lobby Dosser   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>Don Homuth  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:34:52 +1200, Yeah Right   
   >>>>>  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>>I don't really think a 13 year old is capable of making such life   
   >>>>>>changing decisions such as these.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The kids did.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>And "loving parents" would not require them to do so.   
   >>>   
   >>> Loving Parents would first teach them how to do so, then allow them   
   >>> to do so.  In preference to keeping them under their fiscal and   
   >>> physical thumbs.   
   >>>   
   >>13 is not a good age to be making those decisions.   
   >   
   > 13 is the year before 14.  14 is the Freshman Year in High School.   
   >   
   > It is Not too early at that point to be thinking about the importance   
   > of proper study, getting good grades, participating in   
   > school/community activities at all.   
   >   
   > Those four years are what will determine which college the kid will   
   > get into.   
   >   
   > So telling them at 13 that they have some important choices to make   
   > that are Theirs to make, and the consequences of which will remain   
   > with them through the rest of their life is Hardly too early to tell   
   > them the truth.   
   >   
   > I do understand that LPs like to believe They can control such things.   
   > But experience suggests that overall, they cannot.   
   >   
   > Just how it works.   
      
   You wouldn't know. Obviously.   
      
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